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Thinking Makes It So Reading the recent opinion page by Isiah Smith Jr. was certainly informative, thoughtful, and a refreshing change from some of the witless, fear-mongering diatribes printed in your previous opinion pages. Less “sloppy thinking” opinions and more of Mr. Smith, please!

Bruce Fisher, Traverse City Trumpery: Slightly Redefined Duped, fooled, hoaxed, taken to the cleaners, bamboozled, deluded, hoodwinked, conned, left holding the bag, gulled, hornswoggled, jobbed, bait-and-switched, tricked, victimized, beguiled, sold a bill of goods, betrayed, deceived, double-crossed, misled, left in the lurch, cheated, cozened, defrauded, led down the garden path, shanghaied, taken, crossed up, flimflammed, scammed, played for a fool, punk’d, ripped off, suckered, gulled, had your pocket picked, used. Look it up.

Ron Tschudy, Central Lake

Dealing with People 1. Treat everyone you meet as if they are important — everyone, without exception.

2. Be friendly.

3. Let the other person do the talking.

4. You can’t win an argument. There is a vast difference between a friendly discussion and an argument. You can’t win an argument if you win your point, lose your friend, and make an enemy.

5. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.

Try to understand.

6. Practice finding the good in people.

Remember it takes many people rooting for you to make you successful.

If this letter helps just one person, it works.

Too bad the president of the United States and senators and representative can’t listen.

Where Will All the People Go? I was glad to see Stephen Tuttle’s Feb. 12 column, “Something Happening,” on global water supply and climate change, especially his mentioning how rising seas would require moving millions of people away from coastal waters. While there are some southern U.S. states that seem to be doing this, I don’t see much else in the news. Regardless of your own view on climate change, why don’t we see more “what if ” planning at least being talked about in the news? Very few people seem interested in talking about where these people would go “if.” Some studies show that many of these impacted people will not move a few miles up the road but would relocate to land locked states like Nevada, Arizona, and Wyoming, where they have family connections. How would some of these areas, especially the municipalities, prepare for the influx of these masses of people?

Granted, this sea-level rise would be an incremental process, and the financial commitments huge, but why don’t we at least see some conceptual plans? Where are the Linear City concept folks, with all the energyand logistical-efficiency aspects? It just seems to me that even if you don’t quite buy all the climate change data, you should at least be talking about how you would move people away from the coasts and also the impact on where these people would end up.

Beverly Kobylski, Traverse City

Terry Smith, Honor

Where Responsibility Lies In the January 29 feature [“Opioids Up North”], I find it incredibly irresponsible that the Express published the parent’s comment that people from downstate would get women and men addicted and use them as drug mules.

I have no doubt that Mrs. Hertler made this statement in the interview. However, this skewed perception of blaming the drug using on “downstate” people — read: black or brown people — is the wrong direction to continue to take this conversation. This is NOT how it works.

I find it interesting that in our society we challenge people to take responsibility for their actions — except in that case of people buying and using illegal drugs. This is like blaming a bakery for someone being fat.

Or a liquor store for someone’s alcoholism.

Yes, the stores’ wares are legal, but that is the only significant difference. No one is sticking a needle in these peoples’ arms or pinching their noses to make them swallow pills. Once people are dependent, they are very easy to control. The substance use is just the symptom, usually with decades of problems beneath. It is a simple equation of supply and demand. Our challenge is to face the deeper, complicated issues behind demand reduction.

Hate the Addiction, Not the Addicts I am a retired mental health professional that has the privilege to live in this beautiful, magnificent part of the country. I am also a woman in long-term recovery, with 26 years of sobriety. It is difficult, painstaking, and often comes with many falls. I recently had the honor of visiting our local jail, where most of the population, especially the women, were in for drug- and alcohol-related crimes. All reported the loss of rights to their children. In no way am I condoning crime or the severe neglect and abuse of the children by their parents, but I use my voice to educate and try to rid the stigma of those people who minimize, hide, and lie in fear and shame of judgment, punishment, and retaliation for having an illness.

The definition of stigma is “a distinguishing mark of social disgrace.” This contempt toward people addicted to drugs or alcohol often comes from family and society. Ninety percent of the “family” of the addict/alcoholics I have worked with refuse to take part in any family therapy or Alanon. There is much to learn, and I am willing to help. Hate the disease — not the person suffering with the disease. They already hate themselves. We can lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting. We must do this together.

Pamela S. Lynch, LMSW, CAADC, Traverse City

Olympic Opportunity The whole world is watching Pyeongchang.

The Olympic games are a powerful symbol of international cooperation and goodwill, while the spirit of the games represents the possibility of peace and progress in our time. We have a chance this week to take a breath and re-evaluate the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Vice President Mike Pence, a Christian, might have squandered an opportunity to open a small door to dialogue. By declining to stand and recognize athletes of the Korean unified team as they walked together during the opening ceremony, Pence offended the host country. As he sat near Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s despotic leader, never acknowledging her presence, did he stop to wonder what Jesus would do? As an emissary from the Trump administration, does he see war as the only way to settle international conflict? Pence has voiced a willingness to support diplomacy. Will he?

Our senators and representatives have been largely silent on the threat of war with North Korea. Every member should speak out against war. Ask them to support S. 2047 and H.R. 4837. These bills bar the massive spending required for the president to initiate war with North Korea.

Christine Campbell BSW, MS, Frankfort

Alison Heins, Traverse City

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CONTENTS features Crime and Rescue Map......................................7

Northern Michigan’s Legendary Dishes.............10 A Showcase of Restaurants............................14 Tipped Wages Set the Table...........................17 Chateau Chantal Advises Wine Newbies............ 20 The Hunt for the Perfect Red.........................21 Birds of a Feather Cook Together......................25 Northern Seen...................................................28

dates...............................................31-33 music FourScore......................................................36 Nightlife.........................................................40

columns & stuff Top Ten...........................................................4

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion............................................................8 Weird...............................................................9 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................37 The Reel...........................................................38 Crossword...................................................41 Advice Goddess.............................................41 Freewill Astrology.........................................42 Classifieds....................................................43

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More than 100 musicians from northern MI’s folk, bluegrass and acoustic music scene will perform on seven stages at the 10th Annual Great Indoor Folk Festival at The Village at GT Commons, TC on Sun., Feb. 25 from noon to 5:30pm. This free family festival is hosted by Northern Michigan Songwriters in the Round and includes Robin Lee Berry and The Good Souls (pictured), Carter Creek, Wild Sullys, Cabin Fever, Kirby, Song of The Lakes, E-Minor Band, The Nephews and many others.

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The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

Expansion at a northern Michigan distillery is expected to mean 20 or more new jobs for rural Benzie County.

Construction of a 4,500-square-foot expansion at Iron Fish Distillery in Thompsonville is underway; the sprits maker’s The Rickhouse, or whiskey aging warehouse, is expected to be complete by June. Iron Fish also plans to expand spirits production with the addition of two 500-gallon fermenters, for a total of six.

The Rickhouse will also feature a restaurant. Guests will soon be able to order food to go with their cocktails from a newly constructed kitchen featuring a woodfired oven and ingredients grown at local farms, including Iron Fish’s own.

The restaurant and increased production mean the distillery is planning to double its workforce to 40 or more employees, said co-founder Richard Anderson.

“It is an exciting to time to be at Iron Fish, as a new wave of dedicated employees will soon be working on property,” Anderson said.

Genre: Suspense/Psychological Thriller Hitchcock fans, this one’s for you. From the enigmatic A.J. Finn (who is actually prominent book editor, Dan Mallory, but shhh, we’ll never tell) comes a deliciously creepy psych thriller that even Stephen King has deemed “unputdownable.” An homage to the structural rabbithole of bestsellers like “Gone Girl” and “The Girl on the Train,” coupled with a rousing game of spot-the-reference — Vertigo, Gaslight, and the iconic Rear Window, just to name a few — have “The Woman in the Window” hitting all the spine-tingling high notes, says staff at Petoskey’s McLean and Eakin. Readers follow the plight of unreliable female narrator, Anna Fox, who believes she’s played witness to the murder of her new neighbor. She can’t be certain, however; her pesky drinking habit and paralyzing agoraphobia make it hard for her to be certain of, well, anything. Struggling valiantly to overcome the trauma of her past, Anna is eventually forced to confront her own perception of reality. What has she seen? Is someone lying to her? Could she really be losing her mind? Proceed, dear reader, to find out.

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S2S’s Super Duck

Valentine’s Day might be over, but Sugar2Salt (S2S) in Traverse City is still stealing hearts, as it has been since opening in June 2017, with an inspired, locally sourced menu of sweet and savory indulgences that will have you falling in love with breakfast all over again. One irresistible dish making us swoon right now is jokingly referred to by chef-owners Jonathan Dayton and Stephanie Wiitala as “Super Duck”: duck ham and duck sausage hash, fried in duck fat, crisp-skinned and falling-off-the-bone duck-leg confit, a scattering of curly kale, and a drizzle of honey, all topped with a perfectly cooked sunny-side-up duck egg. Ready to dig in? Pierce the giant yolk with your fork to release the flow of yellow gold that “sauces” the dish. Well worth $16. Follow your nose (and your taste buds) to 1371 Gray Drive (next to the water tower) at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City. (231) 492-4616, and on Facebook/s2s.sugar2salt.

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Lights to Make Charlevoix More Beautiful

One Charlevoix resident wants to light up the town’s bridge.

Paul Belding said he used to fish on Lake Michigan several times a week during the summer, and he recalls returning to Charlevoix at night and bring greeted by a dark silhouette of a bridge.

“At night, the bridge is just a big clump of dark cement,” Belding said in a YouTube video promoting his campaign to raise money to install lights across the bascule bridge. “Its beauty could be enhanced with some lighting.”

Belding also notes that the lighting would improve the walkways on either side of the bridge at night.

For more information about the project or to learn how to donate, visit the Charlevoix Bridge Lighting Project page on Facebook.

Harbor Springs Restaurant Week Extended For the first time, Harbor Springs’ Annual Restaurant Week will offer 10 days and nights of opportunities to indulge. Credit its popularity, prices, and meal offerings: You can snag a great breakfast or lunch for $15, and dinner for $25 or $35 (depending on entrée selection).

“Most restaurant weeks run for seven days,” said organizer Jenny Brower, “but I felt that wasn’t enough time; it makes it so tough to pick which restaurants to go to! So ours is now 10 days, incorporating two full weekends, in order to give people more time to try new restaurants and really enjoy themselves.”

With the 2018 addition of Restaurant Week’s new sponsor, Great Lakes Wine and Spirits, you now can also nab two glasses of wine with your dinner for an additional $15. And if you snap a photo of yourself at your Restaurant Week dinner — one you won’t mind being used for marketing purposes — you’ll be entered in a drawing for a $25 restaurant gift card.

(Email photos to sillyjen07@gmail.com.)

The 2018 Harbor Springs Restaurant Week runs Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 11, and reservations fill quickly. Among the restaurants taking part: the Boyne Country Club at Boyne Highlands Resort, The Paper Station Bistro, Stafford’s Pier, The New York, Turkey’s Café, and Vernales. Get the full list of participating restaurants (as it develops) and details at harborspringschamber.com.

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things we love The Green and Gray Michigan DNR officers protect and serve the best of the North’s woods, waters, and creatures. Wanna join their forces? Start with the state’s DNR Conservation Officer Recruit School, the 23-week July–December training academy that’s step No. 1 to officerdom. Recruits, who are paid, will train outside Lansing and undergo rigorous academic and physical challenges — think: submerged vehicle rescue training, tactical shooting exercises, pepper spray to the face — on the way to graduation. Men and women eager to apply by the March 1 deadline should go to www.michigan.gov/conservationofficers.

Prefer to live vicariously? Search for the Conservation Officer Recruit School Blog at Michigan.gov for a dramatic week-by-week inside peek.

bottoms up The King Bourbon One true harbinger of spring for those of us lucky enough to call Northern Michigan home is the tapping of maple trees for sap.

Grand Traverse Distillery believes that’s something to celebrate – with a maple syrup-infused craft cocktail at its downtown tasting room.

Dubbed the King Bourbon, this refreshing, sun-hued concoction is a well-balanced blend of the distillery’s Straight Bourbon (made with local corn, rye and malted barley), King’s Hard Cider (a collaboration between Bee Well Meadery and King Orchards), and Harwood Gold Bourbon Barrel Maple Syrup (aged in Grand Traverse Distillery Bourbon Barrels). Add a dash of house-made bitters and an orange peel twist, and the celebration can begin. “All of the products we house here (including those in this cocktail) are Michigan based — it’s a taste of what ‘Pure Michigan’ is,” said Katie Wagner, tasting room co-manager and co-creator of the King Bourbon. Try it, or one of several other cocktails featuring Grand Traverse Distillery’s award-winning gin, vodka, rum or whiskey, for $10. Grand Traverse Distillery tasting room, 215 E. Front St., Traverse City. (231) 946-1259. grandtraversedistillery.com

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IRONIC BUDGETS

spectator by stephen tuttle President Donald Trump presented his idea of a budget last week. It was about what you’d expect.

Let’s see ... he would cut food stamps by 22 percent and add a work requirement, which isn’t really a budget item at all. He wants the government to send food boxes instead of money to recipients. He proposes a 14 percent cut to subsidized housing and the complete elimination of the public housing capital-improvement and repair fund. He thinks repairing shabby federally subsidized housing should be the responsibility of state and local governments.

most of the time, like this year, they are completely ignored.

It’s also ironic timing since Congress just wrapped up a two-year budget agreement to much fanfare, averting additional government shutdowns until at least the 2020 presidential election cycle. They didn’t seem to be aware of the president’s wishes.

The congressional budget deal, which President Trump signed into law, cuts almost nothing. In fact, it increases discretionary spending of the sort the president wishes to cut by nearly $65 billion. It does not slash food

Our military is overextended because we’ve been in two wars too long, and every bit of presidential bellicosity seems to require additional deployments somewhere.

He would do away with Community Development Block Grants, which would be bad news for cities, including Traverse City, that use them.

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The Trump budget would cut State Department spending by 32 percent. He apparently believes his Twitter account is diplomacy enough in a world with a half-dozen flashpoints on the verge of ignition.

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He would also continue to hack away at the Environmental Protection Agency, whose administrator, Scott Pruitt, last week became the first known person to claim climate change could be good for human beings.

And, of course, the budget eliminates any additional federal payments for the Affordable Care Act, and continues the ongoing assault on low-income Americans by reducing Medicaid payments by $250 billion over the next decade.

The idea here, other than erasing any hint of the Obama presidency, is to eventually eliminate Medicaid altogether and replace it with proportional payments to states, which would decide how to use the funds.

And he would eliminate funding for the Great Lakes Initiative, which helps protect our most important resource.

There are significant ironies here.

The greatest is that presidential budgets are pretty much irrelevant. It’s the House of Representatives, with the consent of the Senate, that is responsible for raising revenue and appropriating spending. The president has no constitutional budget authority at all, other than signing or vetoing the budget bill sent him by Congress. (The president can also just ignore it, in which case it will become law in 10 days, excluding Sundays, without his signature. But doing that creates no photo-op, so presidents tend to sign or veto.)

Presidential budgets, which likely create lots of work for some staffers, are just a suggestion. Sometimes, when the party controlling the White House and Congress are the same, some of those suggestions are followed. But

stamps or subsidized housing or EPA funding or State Department funding or Medicaid or much of anything.

Both the president and Congress added significant spending for the Defense Department, claiming our military, both personnel and equipment, is stretched too thin to be mission ready.

(That is likely not because we haven’t been spending enough. We consistently overspend on programs and systems, including those the military neither wants nor needs. Our military is overextended because we’ve been in two wars too long, and every bit of presidential bellicosity seems to require additional deployments somewhere.)

The budget deal eliminated, and then went sailing by, previously legislated spending caps by $153 billion. The deal will add $350 billion to this year’s deficit and the national debt — on top of the $1 trillion their tax-reform package will add to the debt over the next decade.

So, we’ve learned the president would like to keep slashing away at social programs, and Congress ignored him. He’d like to eliminate as much of the EPA as he can, but Congress ignored him. He’d like to marginalize diplomacy by whacking the State Department, and Congress ignored him. He wanted to increase defense spending, and Congress increased it more. That’s as it should be, because Congress creates the budget, not the president.

The final irony here is this is the same Congress that only a few years ago was supposedly controlled by fire-breathing budget hawks of the tea party variety. They were determined to stop deficit spending and shrink the debt, and they were prepared to shut down the government to do it.

It’s pretty clear all those candidates who told us they were going to eliminate waste and duplication, cut the budget, and stop deficit spending were just pretending. Now we have Republicans joining Democrats in blissful bipartisan harmony doing the one thing they all do best — spending money they don’t have.

How ironic.

Crime & Rescue OVERDOSES AND ARRESTS Three people died of suspected heroin overdoses in less than a week in Grand Traverse County.

Most recently, 19-year-old Rachel Frances Ovalle was found dead Feb. 11 at a home in Green Lake Township, deputies said. Evidence at the scene led detectives to a Traverse City hotel where they arrested a 21-year-old Interlochen man on drug and weapon charges.

On Feb. 7, a 62-year-old Farmington Hills man was found dead of a suspected overdose near a Green Lake boat launch. While state police investigated that death, deputies were called to a nearby home, where they arrested a woman who had been with the man earlier in the day for an unrelated charge.

On Feb. 8, employees at Denny’s in East Bay Township found a 36-year-old employee dead of a suspected overdose in a restroom. Deputies retrieved surveillance footage and tracked down a 36-year-old man whom they suspect supplied the drugs to the employee.

Meanwhile, Rory Timothy O’Brien was arrested Feb. 12 on charges of delivery of drugs causing death in connection with an overdose that claimed the life of Alexander Richard Grizzel in Garfield Township on Oct. 13. O’Brien faces up to life in prison if he is convicted.

LITTLE LEAGUE TREASURER SENTENCED A woman accused of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the Petoskey Little League will spend six months in jail.

Julie Ann Gray was arrested in October after a state police investigation found that she had taken $80,000 from the little league, for which she had served as treasurer.

She pleaded guilty Dec. 5 to embezzlement between $1,000 and $20,000 and made restitution as part of her plea.

She was also sentenced to three years probation and 500 hours of community service.

MAN DIES IN SNOWMOBILE CRASH A downstate snowmobile driver was killed after he struck several trees and was ejected from his machine.

Flushing resident Richard Velat was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash in Otsego County, state police said. Velat crashed at 11:39pm Feb. 9 on a trail that runs alongside South Old 27 in Bagley Township.

Troopers said alcohol and speed contributed to the crash.

DRIVER ESCAPES INJURY A driver who was avoiding another driver swerved off the road and crashed into a garage in Glen Arbor Township.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said no one was injured in the crash, which occurred just before 3pm Feb. 8 on West Harbor Highway.

The driver, a 44-year-old Cedar woman, told police that a black pickup had pulled into her path, forcing her to veer right and crash into the garage. The woman was not injured; the garage suffered major damage.

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HOTEL ASSAULT LEADS ARREST A 19-year-old was arrested for dragging his girlfriend through a hotel and assaulting her.

A night manager at the ParkShore Resort heard screaming coming from a second-floor hallway and called 911. Shortly after, a 21-year-old woman appeared at the front desk and asked for a bandage for a cut over her eye, Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies said.

Deputies responded to the resort at 4:15am Feb. 11 after the suspect had fled. They reviewed surveillance video that showed the suspect dragging the woman through the hallway and kicking her in the head and torso.

Deputies tracked down the suspect hours later and arrested him at a Paradise Township home.

BABYSITTER SENT TO PRISON A 27-year-old man who molested four children was sent to prison for four to 15 years.

Ian David Abrams was sentenced Feb. 13 to a term that exceeded sentencing guidelines because Abrams preyed on children, said Melissa Goodrich, assistant Cheboygan County prosecutor.

Abrams’ victims ranged in age from 4 to 14, and he gained access to them by earning their parents’ trust and offering to provide childcare.

Abrams was arrested in Florida and extradited back to Michigan. When he is released from prison, he will remain on lifetime electronic monitoring.

THREE ARRESTED FOR COCAINE Three suspects from Grand Rapids face charges after undercover police purchased cocaine near Petoskey.

Straits Area Narcotics Enforcement purchased an ounce of cocaine in Emmet County’s Bear Creek Township Feb. 7. A short while later, police arrested three suspects they connected to the drugs and seized more cocaine and cash.

SNOWMOBILE CRASH INJURES TWO Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a snowmobile crash that seriously injured two men.

At 1:30am Feb. 11, deputies were called to Brown Bridge Road near Ranch Rudolf, where the driver, a 26-year-old Kingsley man, and passenger, a 26-year-old Interlochen man, were taken to Munson Medical Center.

The snowmobile was travelling on Brown Bridge Road when it ran off the road and struck several trees. Deputies say it appears alcohol was involved.

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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson In January, Campus Reform — which bills itself “a watchdog to the nation’s higher education system” — asked college students in New York for their reaction to quotes from Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

The students gave heartfelt responses that universally rejected Trump’s ideas. Some went into detailed explanations of how his ideas, as expressed in the quotes, would lead to war and the subjugation of women. Their answers were passionate and sounded well considered. There was only one problem: It was one week before Mr. Trump gave his first SOTU address, and all the quotes were from Barack Obama’s 2016 SOTU speech.

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Complete ignorance on the part of these students did nothing to stop them from forming opinions, and being certain of those opinions. It’s easy too- criticize the students, but their education has been based in orthodoxy rather than facts. They have been taught to have the right opinions, not to arrive at their ideas through thought and study. At the same time, the comfort of groupthink makes them happily certain of themselves.

This sort of education makes them ideal, faithful voters but robs them of any ability to develop ideas that will move culture forward.

In 1999, Scientists David Dunning and Justin Kruger demonstrated that “illusory superiority,” a form of cognitive bias, was higher in people of low ability. Their study was titled, “Unskilled and Unaware of It.” Describing what is now known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, they showed less competent and lesser-informed people were more likely to over value their skills and have high confidence in their opinions. In 2003 and 2006, other studies confirmed their research. In short, the poorly informed are so blind to interrupting facts that they hold the few things they know more dearly. Charles Darwin observed this long before Dunning and Kruger were born. He wrote, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”

There are people in our culture who absolutely fear the free dispensation of opinion and information. They want their followers narrowly informed. President Obama regularly discouraged listening to “talk radio” and Fox News. Opposition wasn’t tolerated. Facebook has launched a massive effort to remove “fake news.” Rather than trust his subscribers to sort out and evaluate various postings, Mark Zuckerberg only wants voices on Facebook that support his worldview. Zuckerberg’s concern about the news communicated on his platform is ironic; Facebook is a terrible news platform, favoring hashtags and memes over even moderate depth of reporting.

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Our poorly informed citizens are the victims of political oversimplification. In her eighthour filibuster on the house floor, Nancy Pelosi said, “As members of Congress, we have a moral responsibility to act now to protect DREAMers, who are the “pride of our nation.” Pelosi is talking about adults

dragged here as children by parents in the commission of a crime. Pelosi’s comment is an ideal example of using language to keep people dumb.

These “children” now have a median age of 24, and they are nothing to be proud of.

According to Harvard researcher Roberto G. Gonzalez, 21 percent of the adult children of illegal aliens have dropped out of school, more than three times the national average of 6 percent. More importantly, there is no specific definition of Dreamer — that designation is a pole-tested name for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The bill, first introduced in 2001, has failed countless times. Democrats are so enamored with the clever turn of phrase that they have taken a failed policy and beaten it into the heads of their supports, using it to stereotype a group of people. It’s a non-specific label with a feelgood title, perfect for their “useful innocent”1 supporters. Pelosi has never clarified about what they are dreaming.

This cloudy thinking has led us down some destructive paths. It is now accepted in popular culture that sex is a social construct.

There is a mostly successful effort to rename the sex of a child as “the sex assigned at birth,” as if there is no biological, factual basis for sex assignment. To make a small group of confused people feel better about themselves, academics and drivers of social norms are trying to convince us that sex is determined by choice.

Their efforts will ultimately run up against the brick wall of reality. There are objective facts that cannot be changed with clever words. If a self-assigned man, who is biologically a woman, goes to the doctor and is treated as a man, he will never be examined for ovarian cancer. Certain medications will be improperly prescribed.

Who is a transwoman, born a man, going to blame for undiagnosed testicular cancer?

Women don’t get that screening. When a trans-gender person goes to an animal rescue to adopt a new pet, does he, she, or ze ask, “With what sex does this dog identify?”

Or does the shelter assistant lift up the dogs tail and check out the hardware?

People trying to silence any voice are hiding behind their reliance on ignorance among their followers. Politicians, leaders, and teachers must welcome all voices and allow arguments to live or die on their merits, not on whether or not they are offensive to any group or fit the political narrative. If your opponent disagrees, welcome the debate or admit defeat. An attempt to silence opposition from any source is a concession that your case is weak, that your position cannot endure the bright light of truth.

Thomas Kachadurian is a photographer, designer, and author. He lives on Old Mission with his wife and two children. He is a member and past president of the Traverse Area District Library Board of Trustees.

1 The label “useful innocents” appears in AustrianAmerican economist Ludwig von Mises’ 1947 book, “Planned Chaos.” Von Mises wrote that the term was used by communists for liberals, whom he describes as ‘confused and misguided sympathizers.’”

Karma Takes Wing A Canada goose got its final revenge on Feb. 1 when, after being shot out of the sky by a hunter in Easton, Maryland, it struck Robert Meilhammer, 51, of Crapo, Maryland, seriously injuring the waterfowler. NPR reported that Meilhammer was hunting with a group when one of the large geese flying overhead was killed and fell about 90 feet, landing on Meilhammer’s head and knocking him out. It also dislodged two of Meilhammer’s teeth. Adult Canada geese weigh about 12 to 14 pounds and can have a wingspan of 6 feet. At press time, Meilhammer was in stable condition after being airlifted to a hospital.

Crime Report -- When the city gets to be too much for Jo and Lonnie Harrison of Houston, they escape to their pre-fab vacation cabin, nestled on a 10-acre plot in Madisonville, Texas. Having last visited the property in November, Lonnie set out on Feb. 2 to check on it. But when he arrived, he told KTRK-TV, “I didn’t see the house. All I saw were blocks and pipes sticking out. The whole house gone.” Sgt. Larry Shiver of the Madison County Sheriff ’s Department later said, “I’ve never had a house reported stolen in my career yet.” (Update: The house was found a few days later, having been repossessed from the previous owner.)

-- Aaron Meininger, 29, of Hernando Beach, Florida, was arrested on Feb. 2 after Hernando County deputies caught him stealing items from the Demarco Family Funeral Home in Spring Hill. When officers arrived, Meininger was carrying a tub of formaldehyde out of the building. They also found makeup, nail polish, electric clippers, soap and other items used in funeral preparation in Meininger’s car.

Curiously, the Tampa Bay Times reported, Meininger told deputies that he was “bored” and “messed up” and didn’t even know what kind of business he was burgling. He said he probably would have just thrown the stolen items away.

Inexplicable SOMEBODY in Muskegon, Michigan, didn’t want the Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII. Immediately following the Eagles’ victory over the New England Patriots on Feb. 4, Subaru of Muskegon ran an ad on local NBC affiliate WOOD-TV that featured 30 seconds of silence and a written message: “Congratulations Patriots!”

WOOD-TV reported via Twitter that the business had submitted only one version of the ad and had specified that it run regardless of the game’s outcome.

Precocious When a Texas stripper arrived at her 11:30 a.m. gig on Feb. 1, she smelled a rat: Her destination turned out to be Noel Grisham Middle School in Round Rock, Texas. Rather than going inside, the performer called the school and reported a prank. Jenny LaCosteCaputo, a district spokesperson, told the Austin American-Statesman the student jokester had used his cellphone to order the stripper and paid for it with his parents’ credit card. He is now facing disciplinary action.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit -- Houston Realtor Nicole Lopez is sporting a new nickname these days: The Taco Lady. Since late 2017, Lopez has incorporated a novel incentive for buyers of homes she’s listed: $250 in free tacos with the purchase of a home.

“Let’s be honest, everyone in Texas loves tacos,” Lopez told KHOU-TV. “And so, it’s really been this ‘taco the town,’” she laughed. Lopez cited

as proof of her success a $170,000 home that’s under contract “and they are super excited for their taco party at the end of this month.”

-- Prason Sukkorn, owner of Coffee on the Day in Chonburi, Thailand, had his marketing idea laid bare after he posted “obscene materials” online -- photos and videos of model/barista Arisa Suwannawong, 22, wearing nothing but an apron while drawing shots and serving customers. Suwannawong, who goes by the nickname “Jaenae with the big boobs,” glances down at her breasts in the video while gushing, “The coffee is so good, they use plenty of milk.”

Police commander Thanachai Usakit from the Sattahip district station told Metro News that Sukkorn “didn’t realize it would break the law, because the model in the photos wasn’t fully naked.” Nevertheless, the owner faces three to five years in jail or a fine of 100,000 Thai baht, or about $3,200.

News That Sounds Like a Joke Staff at an internet cafe in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, had to call paramedics on Jan. 28 when a gamer lost all feeling in his lower limbs after playing the same game for more than 20 hours straight. Newsweek reported that the unnamed man didn’t realize he had become paralyzed until he tried to use the restroom and couldn’t move his legs. As he was being carried out on a stretcher, he was heard begging his friends to finish the game for him.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time A parking lot in Augusta, Georgia, became the scene of a nightmare for an unsuspecting motorcyclist and his 1982 Honda bike on Jan. 31. On his way to exchange some shirts at Target in the Augusta Exchange shopping center, Don Merritt told WJBF-TV, “I was going to go around the back to avoid the speed bumps,” but when he did, he and his bike fell into a sinkhole. Firefighters were called to rescue Merritt, who suffered a skull fracture and a loose tooth as a result of the 15-foot fall.

The bike was totaled. “It’s not good customer relations,” Merritt said about the sinkhole. The center property manager reportedly is fixing the hole.

Smooth Reactions Sonny Donnie Smith, 38, of Clackamas, Oregon, was feeling snubbed in September 2016 when both his father and his brother were invited to a family wedding, but Sonny wasn’t.

As a perfectly reasonable revenge, Sonny made anonymous phone calls to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and the Midland International Air and Space Port in Midland, Texas, claiming that his father and brother were terrorists and would be traveling through the airports. An FBI investigation revealed no terrorist threats, and after interviewing the father and brother, they were both released. On Feb. 1, Sonny Smith pleaded guilty to making the calls, according to The Oregonian, and will be sentenced on May 10.

Redneck Chronicles Cheryl Merrill, 60, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, was arguing with her boyfriend of five years about who would win Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4 and became so enraged shortly after kickoff that she picked up a wooden shelf and threw it at him. St. Johns County sheriff ’s deputies were called and found Merrill “extremely intoxicated,” according to reporting by WJAX-TV. Merrill was charged with aggravated battery and taken to the St. Johns County Jail. Her boyfriend was unable to sign an affidavit because of the hand injury he sustained in the assault.

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1st annual

Northern Michigan’s Legendary Dishes

By Craig Manning What are the most iconic dishes in northern Michigan?

You know the type: the dishes that locals make all their out-of-town friends or relatives try when they visit, or the ones that restaurants tout as “world-famous” on their menus.

From soups and sandwiches to pastas and entrees, northern Michigan is fortunate enough to have many of these dishes. But which ones are most essential? The Northern Express set out to find the answer.

Here, you will find our first five picks, carefully selected from our own research and hundreds of recommendations from other local foodies.

Of course, no menu is complete with just five dishes. These five exquisite culinary creations are just the first class of what will become a recurring feature at the Northern Express. If you think we missed something, it may well be on tap for a future installment.

Without further ado, we present the first five entries in our menu of Northern Michigan’s Legendary Dishes.

Poppycocks (Traverse City)

TOMATO SPINACH SWISS Poppycocks offers an array of fantastic entrees and alwaysworthwhile specials, but the restaurant’s most iconic dishes are its appetizers and small plates. When the Northern Express started putting together this feature and asking locals for their recommendations, Poppycocks’ Pita Chips were easily among the most popular suggestions.

Our pick is another Poppycocks primer: the tomato spinach swiss soup. “My favorite soup in THE WORLD,” commented one TripAdvisor user, and it’s not difficult to see why. Pairing a hearty tomato flavor with melted cheese that gives the soup a French onion vibe, the tomato spinach swiss is perfect as both a winter warmer and a light pre-meal bite on a warm day.

Poppycocks serves all soups with its freshly baked homemade garlic herb rolls, which are perfect for soaking up any last bits of broth, tomato, or cheese. For just $4 a cup and $6 a bowl, the dish is another great Downtown TC bargain.

If you want some extra variety, you can also try a soup sampler for $7. While the tomato spinach swiss is a daily standby — for good reason — the chefs at Poppycocks rotate other recipes in and out of the menu depending on the day. All soups are made fresh in-house, and each threesoup sampler includes the tomato spinach swiss and the two soups of the day.

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Art’s Tavern (Glen Arbor)

CHICKEN JALAPENO SOUP Two things have allowed Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor to turn its signature dish — the chicken jalapeno soup — into the stuff of local legend. The first is a fantastic recipe.

The second is scarcity.

The soup itself is delectable — a creamy, cheesy, spicy, hearty dish that will force you to reconsider soup’s status as a side dish. Indeed, Art’s chicken jalapeno soup is filling enough to be the main course for the average patron.

Priced at just $4 for a cup and $5 for a bowl, the soup might be the most economical meal in all of Glen Arbor. To-go containers of the soup, meanwhile, can be had for $14.

If you want to try the soup, though, you will have to clear some time to get to Art’s Tavern on a Wednesday. The soup is only served one day a week, with zero exceptions — Wednesdays, and the weekly resurgence of the dish is a holiday in and of itself. Patrons treat it that way, too: stopping by Art’s on Wednesday has become something of a weekly ritual for many locals.

The strategy is something of a marketing coup. Art’s Tavern has certainly found a way to avoid the middle-of-the-week slump. But the marketing gimmick wouldn’t work if the dish didn’t live up to the hype, and this one’s continued popularity proves that it does.

“Call at least three days ahead to reserve large to-go orders,” Art’s website warns, suggesting past soup shortage incidents.

When demand for a dish so clearly outpaces supply, you know the restaurant in question is doing something right.

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Vernales

(Harbor Springs) DRY AGED TOMAHAWK RIBEYE Of the restaurants featured on this list, Vernales is by far the newest. The Harbor Springs establishment opened in 2014, welcoming guests with a unique concept. Rather than decide between being a steakhouse or being a sports bar, Vernales owners Joe Guthrie and Keith Lynch figured, why not be both?

As a result, Vernales is actually three different restaurants in one: a classier-than-average sports bar, complete with TVs and creative twists on standard American fare; an upscale “chop house” that occupies the main dining room; and a “wine cellar” section, for quieter and more intimate occasions. Our “iconic dish” pick appears on both the chop house and wine cellar menus. It’s a massive 30-ounce American Wagyu tomahawk ribeye steak, dry-aged in Himalayan salt. At $99.90, the tomahawk ribeye is a splurge, but fear not: Diners of Vernales have reported that the steak feeds two — and then some.

Vernales has become something of a destination for steak enthusiasts in Michigan over the past few years. The elevated profile is likely due in part to MLive, which called Vernales the best steakhouse in the state back in 2015. The article dubbed the steaks “unbelievable,” specifically highlighting the dry aged tomahawk ribeye.

“Unbelievable” is a fitting adjective for this particular steak. The meat is incredibly tender, and the flavor is secondto-none. As for the presentation, a “tomahawk ribeye” is so named because it is plated with five or more inches of extra rib bone still attached to the meat. In other words, it strongly resembles an axe. The dish really does look impressive, so make sure to snap a photo before you tuck in.

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Amical

(Traverse City)

CHICKEN POT PIE Established in 1994, Amical pre-dates Traverse City’s restaurant boom. Even 24 years after it opened, though, this European-bistrostyle restaurant remains one of the most popular and reliable culinary destinations in northern Michigan.

While Amical is perhaps most famous for its ever-changing menu — and especially for its annual Cookbook Series — the restaurant also has a specialty for offering exceptional twists on familiar comfort food recipes. From quiche to pasta to pizza, Amical’s lunch menu blooms with familiar and unwaveringly delicious standbys. Easily the most iconic of these dishes — and perhaps Amical’s overall signature — is the chicken pot pie.

Made with a delectable and perfectly flaky pastry crust and packed with a creamy filling of chicken, mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, Amical’s chicken pot pie bursts with flavor. Sure, the dish isn’t revolutionary. In fact, Amical has willingly shared its recipe for chicken pot pie numerous times over the years. There is no grand “secret” to the success of this dish. However, Amical’s chicken pot pie is an example of what every great restaurant should be able to do: Take a popular standby dish and elevate it to “must-try” status with attention to detail, the right ingredients, and immense culinary craft.

Priced at $12, the chicken pot pie at Amical offers some of the best value you will find on any restaurant menu in Downtown TC. Affordability isn’t the only reason that you will see so many lunch patrons at Amical eating this dish, though. The bigger reason is that, from the first bite, this dish makes the Amical dining room feel like home.

The Rowe Inn (Ellsworth)

HERB-ENCRUSTED RACK OF LAMB There are a lot of things that make The Rowe Inn in Ellsworth a legendary restaurant.

There’s the fact that it’s been around since 1972 and hasn’t changed ownership once in 46 years. There’s the setting, a rustic cottage built in 1947 that provides a true one-of-a-kind dining experience. There’s the wine list — still one of the largest in northern Michigan, with some 800 different varieties on hand and thousands of bottles stashed in the cellar. There’s the fact that it gave legendary northern Michigan chef Harlan Peterson his start, before he went down the street to open the equally legendary (and no longer in-business) Tapawingo.

And then, of course, there’s the food itself. Like many fine dining establishments, The Rowe Inn tweaks its menu seasonally.

The restaurant’s signature dish, though — the herb-encrusted rack of lamb — has been on the menu since the very beginning.

The dish — a New Zealand baby rack of lamb seared, crusted with bread crumbs and herbs, and then roasted to medium rare perfection — is served with a raspberry gastrique sauce and sides of sweet potato risotto and green beans. Coupled with beautiful presentation and the right bottle of wine — be sure to ask your waiter for recommendations — the herb-encrusted rack of lamb is more than worth the drive to Ellsworth and the $42 price tag.

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Please be seated for these abbreviated versions of the restaurant reviews we’ve featured since our last restaurant tour issue. Bon appetit!

Compiled by Kristi Kates The Torch Lake Cafe Torch Lake It started as a church back in the 1800s but was restored to its former glory and turned into a rockin’ dining destination by owner Leanna Collins and her husband, Jim Hettinger, both performers. Today, Collins is the house musician at the restaurant; her own band, Torch Lake Rock and Soul, performs on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

(Thursdays are also open mic night). Collins also brings in other bands and musicians for special occasions, and even played host one night to famed ’70s singer Rod Stewart.

Food-wise, the owners aim to provide both “sustenance and sound” via a full menu of classic Americana comfort foods, all homemade — and some with a vegetarian or freshwater fish twist.

On the Menu: Breakfasts include French toast made with Stone House cherry walnut bread and vanilla cinnamon sauce; homemade biscuits with Plath’s sausage gravy; and egg-white omelets with onions, mushrooms, and tomatoes. For lunch, share-worthy plates abound: Naked Chicken Wings with your choice of sauce; the John Cross Fisheries smoked-fish trio, featuring salmon, whitefish, and trout dips with toasted baguette; meatballs alla potenza on a bed of San Marzano marinara; or roasted vegetable flatbreads with creamy garlic sauce, plus wraps and sandwiches. At dinner, diners can choose from hearty fare like Ebel’s smoked half-chicken with homemade BBQ sauce and two sides; lightly seasoned and grilled Norwegian salmon; or linguini and farm fresh vegetables tossed with garlic, butter, and white wine.

Find Them: The Torch Lake Cafe is located at 4990 US-31 N. in Central Lake (corner of US-31 N. and M-88). torchlakecafe.com, (231) 599-1111.

Cellar 152 Elk Rapids Owners Mark and Kerrie Wayne’s unique concept combines a retail wine shop/wine bar, a deli/restaurant, a gourmet market, and a carefully curated collection of home accents. It’s become a community gathering place for locals and tourists alike, including summer boaters from the adjacent marina on East Grand Traverse Bay. Chef Chris Howard oversees the food side. When the restaurant first opened, it had a limited food selection, but has since expended to a full-service menu of made-to-order sandwiches, small plates, and salads, plus soups, entrées and

desserts. Special events keep the place hopping even in the off-season, with live music every Friday and Saturday year-round, wine tastings every Thursday night, a ‘Build Your Own’ Bloody Mary Bar on Sundays, Trivia Tuesdays with a taco bar, and Euchre Wednesdays with gyros.

On the Menu: Sandwiches are always a popular menu choice; the big winners these days are the turkey Rachel (oven-roasted turkey, melted Swiss cheese, tangy slaw and house-made Russian dressing on Stone House Charnuska rye) and the French dip (shaved prime rib simmered in the jus of the house-made French onion soup, covered with the strained-out onions and served on a soft roll). In the small plates category, the charcuterie board tops the list of customer favorites; it comes out on a cold granite slab with four different kinds of cheeses, a couple of different meats, candied walnuts, pickled vegetables, and crackers. A close second is the beer cheese, served with a giant pretzel delivered on a banana hanger. Out of the deli case, Ray said the chicken pot pie, the cherry chicken salad, and the Cuban pork tart — made of slow-roasted Cuban-seasoned pork, smoked Gouda, and spicy McClure’s pickles — have become Cellar 152’s best sellers.

Find Them: Cellar 152 is located at 152 River St. in Elk Rapids. cellar152.com, (231) 264-9000.

Harvest Traverse City When Harvest debuted in June 2014 in in the alley between Front and State Streets in Traverse City, the only visible sign of its existence to passersby on nearby Union Street — if they happened to look east — was a large sign hanging off the façade of a modest brick building that said “EAT.” But soon there were lines out the door. The menu concept was intriguingly simple: an eclectic mix of regional American and global flavors, emphasizing fresh, local, sustainable ingredients. In May 2017, the restaurant moved to its new location directly on Union Street, just steps away from where it all began, complete with new lighting and new chairs and barstools, and retaining the big, quirky U.S. wall map that was always a popular conversation piece at the original Harvest.

On the Menu: Must-have specials to keep an eye out for include the Korean beef tacos with sambal slaw and sriracha mayo; and the sweet potato fries with chimichurri. Street beets with wasabi mayo are another local favorite. The menu is constantly evolving, but “always within the box of what Harvest is,” according to the owners. Harvest’s current head chef is Adam Steffens. He’s originally from Michigan but recently returned from

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several years working out west, including California, and he has brought a lot of different ideas with him. For a recent Harvest brunch menu (served on Saturdays and Sundays) Steffens crafted a roasted poblano and chorizo benedict with spicy hollandaise.

Other recent favorites on the brunch menu include a Caprese waffle sandwich (Sun Ra Farm tomatoes, spinach, balsamic vinegar, and mozzarella), pumpkin-bread and cream-cheese French toast, and the perennial favorite, Old No. 12 hash (root veggies, ginger-sage sausage, fried egg, and mustard cream). For dinners, the newly added “Give Us a Minute” menu category, with its everchanging entrée-like options, has definitely drawn more guests to this unusual and flavorful dining destination.

Find Them: Harvest is located at 127 South Union St. in Traverse City. roamingharvest. com, (231) 486-6037 Colin’s Corner Cafe Harbor Springs Colin Stevens moved back to northern Michigan to be closer to family after a stint working as a menu and event planner in California; and soon it became apparent to him that he wanted to do more than “just” work for a restaurant. So he took matters into his own hands, found a building and an investor in Harbor Springs, and launched his own coffee and cake shop with a light breakfast and lunch menu. The resulting Colin’s Corner Cafe sits on a very accessible corner in downtown Harbor Springs, right next to the post office and the American Legion. Stevens did the décor himself: one whole wall is covered in round slices of wood stumps and all of the tables are handmade. Bright pops of green, yellow, and pink, with accents of black and white, make up the rest of the lively décor.

On the Menu: The coffee menu, based around Ferris Coffees, includes specialty espresso drinks, drip coffee, and iced coffee, plus the cafe’s signature coffee drink, a cinnamon maple latte. Stevens also makes his own vanilla and mocha syrups for the coffee beverages. Two breakfast sandwiches are already rising to the top of the menu in popularity: the Little Harbor, with house-roasted vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, peppers, and onion), turkey bacon, and eggs on rye; and the Harbor Monster, a stack of eggs, ham, bacon, cheddar cheese, and pickled jalapenos on seeded wheat.

Lunch features more savory sandwiches, including customer favorite, The Mean Pony. It features house-roasted vegetables plus mixed greens, red onion, tomatoes, and pesto aioli, all wrapped in a spinach tortilla. Customers also go for carefully thought-out salads like the arugula salad

with fennel, apples, avocado, walnuts, red onions, parmesan, and a citrus vinaigrette.

Still got room for dessert? You’ll want to make sure you do. Stevens also bakes his own cakes.

Find Them: Colin’s Corner Cafe is located at 138 West 3rd St. in downtown Harbor Springs. facebook.com/colinscornercafe, (616) 735-9660 Nancy Kelly’s Pellston As a kid, Nancy Kelly watched her father return from Chicago’s Randolph Street wholesale food markets with olive oil and bags of peppers. As an adult and aspiring chef, she moved to northern Michigan, began preparing beautiful meals to friends at home, and eventually opened the specialty food destination Pellston Market and her own catering business; eight years later, she morphed the market into Nancy Kelly’s Restaurant, a gourmet destination filled with eclectic antiques and an equally diverse menu. Today, the restaurant is more like a pop-up, focusing on specialized dining events with prix fixe menus plus a catering component. Kelly’s focus is high standards, with even hors d’ouevres made and garnished fresh.

On the Menu: The menus, no matter what the occasion, offer an impressive mix of what Kelly calls “recycled classics” — familiar dishes given a modern edge. Lately, she’s been infusing more plant-based and vegan cooking into her offerings, utilizing vegetables as an important component of each plates. Kelly’s also especially proud of the restaurant’s sauces, which are made close as possible to when the dishes go out, with fresh chopped herbs stirred in at the last minute to infuse all those flavors into the sauce. A few recent menu highlights include Prince Edward Island mussels, served in a creamy reduction sauce over stir-fried baby spinach and presented in a puff pastry box; a salad of roasted beets with tiny French lentils, tomatoes, avocado and chopped walnuts; and Kelly’s famed Delice de Chocolat.

Find Them: Nancy Kelly’s is located at 230 US-31 North, Pellston, nancykellys.com or (231) 539-7100.

Calypso Grill Traverse City Calypso Mediterranean Grill in Traverse City offers a taste of the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, with Chef Serkan Erginkara and his staff presenting a menu that features fish, fowl, pork, beef, and a host of veggies, all done up with zesty flavors and unique presentations. For owner Todd Gokey, the restaurant

is about is when “going out to dinner” was an occasion. He aims to make sure people enjoy a comfortable atmosphere that doesn’t make them feel rushed to leave, like some places where the staff is anxious to turn the tables. That atmosphere includes dark colors throughout, but also plenty of windows to bring in natural light. Metal sculptures and paintings of Mediterranean scenes also add to the warm and tranquil ambience.

On the Menu: The most popular dishes at the restaurant include various Mediterranean specialties, like Mediterranean Shrimp with its mélange of flavors from fresh tomatoes, garlic, cremini mushrooms, parsley, and feta cheese. There are options for vegetarians, too, like green tomatillo Alfredo, Mediterranean pasta, or Tava — sautéed tomatoes, mushroom, spinach, red peppers, and herbs topped with melted mozzarella cheese. From the grill, patrons can decide from among baby back ribs, prime rib, or ribeye. Other options include beef or freerange chicken köfte wrap, salmon and trout, or kabobs with your choice of beef, chicken or pork. There are appetizers aplenty, from calamari to tabbouleh, hummus, and cacik — a blend of Greek yogurt with fresh cucumber, garlic and mint, served with warm naan bread. And currently, there are three desserts on the menu: Carrot cake, honey pistachio cake and vanilla crème brûlée.

Find Them: Calypso Mediterranean Grill is located at 1500 US-31 in Traverse City. calypsogrilltc.com, (231) 943-2740.

Milkweed Traverse City Jennifer Blakeslee and Eric Patterson are well known to a wide audience in northern Michigan as co-owners and co-chefs of The Cooks’ House, their intimate white-clapboard temple of hyper-local, seasonal, creative, and much-celebrated cuisine in Traverse City. And although they are partners in the business and culinary sense only (equal partners, they emphasize), they have formed a family with their co-workers that seems ready to tackle just about anything, including bringing a new “baby” into the fold this past November. That’s when their most recent venture, Milkweed Street Food, began serving up global flavors seven days a week, year-round, at their permanent stand inside The Little Fleet bar and food truck venue just across the street from The Cook’s House. The galley-style kitchen, while well-equipped and efficiently laid out, is undeniably small, as is the ordering counter; but getting the food out (whether for dining in or take-out) reportedly takes five minutes at most.

On the Menu: You may be surprised what five minutes (and $10 or less) will get you: nothing less than a culinary journey around the world. Among the recent offerings on the Milkweed menu were two Indian curries (chicken tikka masala or vegetarian Punjabi kadhi pakora with cream curry and chickpea dumpling, each served with basmati rice, cilantro chutney and yogurt raita); Korean bibimbap (beef brisket or vegetarian options served with rice, bean sprouts, veggies, sesame, gochujang sauce, and fried egg; a Hawaiian plate (roasted pork, cabbage, onion, macaroni salad, sriracha, green onion and basmati rice); and a Mexican tortilla scramble (with cilantro, cheese, avocado, egg, pickled jalapeño, beans and ranch salsa).

Find Them: Milkweed is located inside The Little Fleet, 448 East Front St., Traverse City.

Follow them on Facebook and Instagram (milkweedstreetfood) or come into Milkweed during business hours. No telephone inquiries.

Wren the Butcher Traverse City The logo for Wren the Butcher, the artisan sausage and rustic comfort food restaurant that chef-owner Adam McMarlin opened inside the new State Street Marketplace in Traverse City last July, features a tiny bird perched on a huge meat cleaver. Some may find that an odd choice, but then, Wren is located right next to the Marketplace’s flagship operation and owner, Monkey Fist Brewing Co., which sports an equally quirky logo. And as it turns out, the Monkey and the Wren are quite the compatible neighbors; as McMarlin puts it, they make pretty good beer, and he makes pretty good sausage. It’s a match made in — well, in this case, a historic brick building that started out life in as a horse barn for the Traverse City Police Department in the early 1900s and was later a drycleaning business before being transformed into the eclectic food, beverage and retail space it is today.

On the Menu: One top customer pick from the menu is poutine (fried potatoes, sausage velouté, cheese curds). McMarlin calls it “basically a simple dish,” but it’s one of those things where a person will eat one, and then also order one to go on their way out. Other favorites are the farmhouse sausage (made with pork, white wine, garlic, coriander, fennel, mustard seed, fresh herbs) on a brioche bun, the daily gnocchi (recently with roasted chicken, leeks, and mushrooms), and the spaetzle (sautéed in butter, with crumbled sausage, sauerkraut, and parmesan). Together, these hearty dishes lend a kind of French brasserie vibe to the menu. A lot of the offerings are definitely focused on sausage, but that’s not all McMarlin does. You’ll usually find a couple of pastas and risotto, soups or salads, and often desserts too.

Find Them: Wren the Butcher is located inside the State Street Marketplace at 329 East State St. in Traverse City. wrenthebutcher.com, (231) 252-8001 Common Good Bakery Traverse City This bakery might be located in a small strip mall south of Traverse City’s main shopping district, but with its appealing and welcoming interior filled with warm woods, retro light fixtures, vintage flour sacks as wall art, and a backdrop of gleaming stainless steel fixtures and appliances, you’ll be drawn in. What’ll make you stay is the bountiful array of golden-crusted artisan breads and flaky sweet and savory pastries beckoning from the glass-walled bakery case. Owner-chef Jason Gollan and his wife designed Common Good to go beyond a bakery and include unique breakfast and lunch menus (both of which are available all day) and a full-service coffee bar.

Common Good focuses on two key components: real food made with real ingredients by professionally trained cooks, bakers, and retail staff — and genuine hospitality, which Gollan calls “a dying art.”

On the Menu: Morning buns (croissant dough made into a cinnamon roll and then tossed in cinnamon sugar while still warm) are quickly becoming the bakery’s signature item, although the generously sized, classic French-style croissants and chocolate croissants are also perennial bestsellers, along with pastry “tiles” sporting various savory toppings. Recent incarnations were a sweet Gorgonzola and ham tile, and a garlic, artichoke, spinach, and cheese tile.

The food menu changes every few months, but always keeps a few tried and true favorites, one of which is the breakfast sandwich, an egg custard on focaccia bread and your choice of bacon or sausage, topped with aged cheddar cheese. For lunch, favorites include the roasted wild mushroom sandwich, the chicken basil pesto and the “killer griller” (incorporating four different types of cheese). Two different soups, at least one of them vegetarian or vegan, are offered every day. Recently the menu featured a curried cauliflower soup and a ham broth, the latter of which incorporated shredded meat from the bone, collard greens, and blackeyed peas.

Find Them: Common Good is located at 537 West 14th St. in Traverse City. commongoodbakery.com, (231) 933-8002.

L’Chayim Benzie County Decades ago, Jonathan Clark missed the delis he enjoyed while living on the East Coast.

So he opened one in his hometown of Beulah.

Clark envisioned no ordinary sandwich shop — he wanted a traditional Jewish-style New York deli, with everything baked on site, from scratch, or as he called it, “on edge, yet still traditional.” Today he and longtime friend and business partner David Scott have two delis — the original, in Beulah, and a location in Frankfort, which opened in 2010 and closes temporarily in the winter, when the Lake Michigan town loses most of its population. That’s when Scott joins Clark at the Beulah location, which stays open year-round.

On the Menu: The menu is extensive within its parameters. It features a variety of sandwiches, served on a bagel or bread of your choice. There are five different flavors of feta spreads, lox, meats, cheeses, veggies, quiche, homemade soup, and a host of baked goods. Clark says they evaluate the menu every year but don’t change it for the sake of change. They did add the Chicken Shawarma a couple years ago, which has proven to be popular.

Most popular? Clark says it’s the everything bagel, while the next most requested item is its polar opposite, the plain bagel.

And tastes differ from store to store. Scott says his partner proposed dropping the Goyim, which sells very little in Beulah. “I sell the heck out of it” in Frankfort, he says.

As for those names, Scott pointed to the Sinai, Mazel Tov, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip.

“Jonathan came up with all those,” he says, noting the Mideastern theme. Clark takes up the tale. “I think a lot of people wonder why there’s a Jewish deli in Beulah. So they come in — and then we’ve got them,” he says.

Find Them: L’Chayim is located at 274 Benzie Blvd. in Beulah. 231-882-5221or on Hop Lot Brewing Suttons Bay Brothers Steve and Drew Lutke knew they wanted to do something special with their microbrewery on the south end of Suttons Bay. Even before building their facility, they had begun researching the style and aesthetic they wanted to draw in customers. So they decided to showcase what brought them back to the area from Chicago: the great outdoors. They embraced their favorite component of northern Michigan — everything “Up North” and outdoors.

The interior embodies the rustic aesthetic,

with concrete floors, dark wood tables and benches, and beams hewn from white pines harvested on the property. Plenty of windows offer views of the woods, and outdoors you’ll find picnic tables on the patio, as well as on the fringes of the property, under the shade of trees, plus a small outdoor stage, grand fire pits, and in summer, yard games and footballs. In the winter months, they erect zippered clear plastic igloos, which include a small electric heater. Sound cool?

They are — and they’re frequently full, so reserve them at the bar as soon as you arrive if you want to snuggle up inside one.

On the Menu: A host of different brews are complimented by the food. The menu hews toward usual pub fare, with nachos, mac and cheese, pretzels, and sandwiches; but it refuses to go the burger route. Instead, Hop Lot offers several in-house smoked specialties, such as turkey, chicken, pork, and beef brisket. Crowd favorites are the smoked pork taco, smoked turkey sandwich (with bacon, Colby jack cheese, and guacamole), and the beef brisket sandwich. The flavors are zesty yet balanced, and it’s obvious there’s as much care given to the comestibles as to the brews.

Drew recommends the pulled pork nachos, while on the liquid side, Steve touts the Leelanau Exchange as his best beer.

Find Them: Hop Lot is located 658 S. West Bayshore Dr. in Suttons Bay. hoplotbrewing.com, (231) 866-4445.

The Boathouse Traverse City The Boathouse’s sweeping views of the seasons’ spectacles is certainly one factor that draws people to this upscale yet unpretentious restaurant just 10 minutes’ drive north of Traverse City, but what keeps them coming back again and again year-round is its outstanding food and highly personalized service. Owner Doug Kosch and executive chef Jim Morse are of one mind in wanting to give every guest a memorable dining experience. Kosch and his family live just a stone’s throw from the Boathouse, and many of the vegetables, fruits, and herbs used in the restaurant are grown right on their 10-acre farm, using environmentally friendly practices. The restaurant appeals to a wide range of diners because, while they still do the classics, they also try to push the envelope and do fun, new things.

On the Menu: In addition to the Boathouse’s signature Wagyu beef, lobster tail, and organic salmon entrées, its baked Leelanau Cheese truffled raclette (with white wine, shallot and garlic, served over rosemary ham, fingerling potatoes, cornichons and garlic toast) and morel-chanterelle bisque (chateau d’orignac, cream, white truffle oil) are two popular menu choices when the temperature drops. When cooler weather dictates certain changes in the Boathouse menu, Morse’s mind turns to ingredients like root vegetables and foraged fare. The combination of such serious comfort food and the cozy, cottage-style dining room, bathed in the warmth of flickering logs in its large stone fireplace, chases any thought of chills away.

Find Them: The Boathouse is located at 14039 Peninsula Dr. in Traverse City. boathouseonwestbay.com. (231) 223-4030.

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Tipped Wages Set the Table for Poverty, Sexual Harassment

By Christie Minervini At a recent conference in Detroit, I had an opportunity to meet Saru Jayaraman, co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and hero of the gender equality movement. She was presenting at session titled “Closing the Gender Equity Gap.” While I have been aware of pay inequality for a long time, she presented a mind-blowing study that connected low hourly tipped wages with an increased rates of poverty and sexual harassment for restaurant workers. She also made a compelling argument for why many women who experience harassment and abuse early in their working career choose to downplay or ignore it later on.

Here in Michigan, the tipped wage is $3.38 per hour, and in order to reach the state’s minimum wage, lawmakers expect that the remaining $5.52 to be made up through customer tips. Adding insult to injury, restaurant owners are required to report their servers’ tips to the IRS, so base wages go toward covering taxes. As a result, nearly all take-home income comes from tips.

“When you earn [minimum wage as a waitress], your wage goes to taxes and you get a paycheck that says $0. You live on your tips, and when you live on your tips, you have to put up with inappropriate customer behavior in order to feed your family,” said Sheena Bland, a restaurant worker from Detroit.

Today, 70 percent of tipped workers in Michigan are women who suffer from three times the poverty rate of other Michiganders, even when taking tips into account. Forty percent are single moms who support their families on tips.

This is especially problematic when you consider that the restaurant industry is the single largest and fastest growing private sector employer in the country. It is worth nearly $800 billion a year and employs more than 14 million workers, with one in ten Americans working in a restaurant.

According to a 2014 ROC United study, women working in states with a subminimum tipped wage were twice as likely to report experiencing sexual harassment than women where the minimum wage is the same for tipped and non-tipped workers.

This is even worse when you consider that the restaurant industry is already the single largest source of sexual harassment charges filed by women with a rate five times higher than any other industry.

The same study surveyed 688 restaurant workers found that whopping 80 percent of women experienced sexual harassment from customers. Two-thirds reported it from managers, and half from co-workers.

(Male restaurant workers also reported experienced sexual harassment, but to a lesser degree.)

“We also learned that managers were encouraging them to objectify themselves — to wear more make-up, to show more cleavage — at three times the rate in states like New Mexico, where the wage is $2.13, than in states like California [with a $10.00 minimum wage],” said Jayaraman.

Interestingly, when tipping first came to

America in the 19th century from Europe, Americans found it dehumanizing and demeaning. They thought it seemed contrary to American democratic ideals.

“They rejected it as the vestiges of a feudal system. They thought you should get good service regardless of how much you are able to tip,” said Jayaraman.

But railway companies and restaurant owners fought successfully to have the practice allowed. And while railway workers unionized and abolished the system, restaurant workers never did.

In time, Europeans rejected the notion of tipping, but Americans continued to embrace it.

“In a country where we believe we have done away with master-servant relations, the existence of tipped workers show us this is far from the case,” said Dianne Avery, a professor at the University of Buffalo.

“Because what tipped workers represent for the moment of that exchange [with a customer] is an intimate master-servant relation.”

She added, “I think the notion of a young attractive female waitress as a sex object has entered as a cultural norm as a result.” As evidence, Avery points to the emergence and popularity of “breastaurants” like Hooters, where servers are expected to wear form fitting clothes and flirt in order to get tips. Over the past few years, Jayaraman and members of ROC United have gone up against the powerful National Restaurant Association (the “other” NRA) lobby to abolish the tipped minimum wage, a campaign was the focus of her 2013 book, Behind the Kitchen Door.

While on tour for this book, she was approached by women from across the professional spectrum who pointed to jobs in restaurants as their first experience with gender-based discrimination and harassment.

“Countless young women are introduced to the world of work through the restaurant industry,” said Jayaraman. “And they go on to be more likely to accept forms of sexual harassment as ‘just part of the job.’”

“They’d say, ‘I’m a successful woman now, and I’ve been sexually harassed recently on the job, but I didn’t do anything about it because it was never as bad as it was when I was a young woman working in restaurants,’” she said. “So we realized that there are millions of women who’ve gone through this industry in high school, college, or graduate school as their first introduction to the working world. This is how we show young women what’s acceptable and tolerable in the workplace.”

For me personally, this theory rings true.

My first job at age 15 was as a dishwasher at a local boat club where I was constantly harassed and sexually propositioned by customers, and even my manager who thought was okay to get my attention by pulling my hair or snapping my bra straps.

I went on to work several humiliating restaurant jobs both in and out of college, including a nine-month stint at a country club. There, while working a private bachelor party (complete with a stripper), I was teased, grabbed, and groped by a group of horny male customers. One thought it would be

fun to pull me onto his lap so he could prove how much I was turning him on. At the end of the night, another one of them “rewarded” me with a $100 bill. In tears, I left it on the table and never came back.

Later on in my sales career, I continued to experience discrimination, harassment, and emotional abuse — but because nothing compared to my past waitressing jobs, I figured that this was just the “way things were” and continued to keep my mouth shut.

But now, with the revelations exposing and rejecting the behavior of many highprofile men in Hollywood, media and politics, I am hopeful that we are at an important turning point.

Today, Jayaraman and others are fighting for the abolition of the tipped sub-minimum wage under a campaign called “One Fair Wage.” It pushes states to eliminate the twotiered wage system and adopt the regular federal minimum wage for everyone, tipped or non-tipped.

Raising the tipped minimum wage, she argues, protects female employees who are uniquely victimized by the twotiered system. The seven states that have established One Fair Wage — California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Minnesota, and Alaska — have cut the rate of reported harassment nearly in half, in large part because workers know that refusing to entertain a customer’s advances won’t jeopardize their income.

And, there is evidence that it can actually spur economic growth.

“We found that [states where everyone earns the same minimum wage] were fairing better by every measure,” said Jayaraman. According to ROC United, these states have experienced aboveaverage employment growth, an increase in per capita restaurant sales, and even higher rates of tipping. Their findings undermine the NRA’s argument that raising wages will put restaurants out of business and stop customers from tipping.

After years of hard work, ROC United’s efforts to abolish the tipped minimum wage are finally paying off, Jayaraman says. Lawmakers in seven more states have introduced legislation to end it.

In Michigan, a coalition seeking to raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 per hour and phase out the lower wage for tipped workers recently announced the launch of a ballot measure campaign to take the issue to voters in the 2018 election.

“Ten years ago we were having a real hard time connecting labor issues to the food movement. Now the movement is recognizing that this is a top priority,” Jayaraman said. Foodies are finally connecting the dots between sustainable food and sustainable wages and as a result, the momentum for change is accelerating.

She adds, “No one should have to experience the financial insecurity, discrimination, and sexual harassment that comes with being forced to live off tips.”

Christie Minervini is a Traverse City resident who owns Sanctuary Handcrafted Goods in the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. She is passionate about gender equality, community development, and ending homelessness.

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You Can’t Buy Happiness, But You Can Buy Wine — (And That’s Kind of the Same Thing)

Chateau Chantal’s president and CEO advises wine newbies and connoisseurs alike on tasting, storing, and trying new wines

By Daniel Harrigan Here Up North, we’re blessed to have an abundance of local wineries and wine experts to help demystify, educate, and share their love of the vast world of the vine. One, Marie-Chantal Dalese, president and CEO of Chateau Chantal on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsula, recently earned her grapes as a Certified Sommelier from the Court of Master Sommeliers. With a few more months of long, cold nights — and hopefully many wonderful winter dinners — ahead of us, we thought it the perfect time to pick her brain about choosing, handling, and expanding on the North’s favorite nectars.

The best way to learn which wines you might like is to go for a tasting, right? Tell us what folks should expect from a tasting experience.

The tasting room staff are there to help guide you through our menu and direct you to new things you may like based on your current drinking habits — which don’t have to include wine by the way. Prefer your coffee black? You might like dry, tannic red wines. Enjoy your coffee sweet and creamy? Start with a sweet white blend.

The tasting room experience is here to demystify wine and allow for you to try something new while having a great time with your friends.

What might you suggest to people who can afford quality but never branch out from what they are already familiar with?

There are thousands of wines to try from around the world, with different climates, soils, varietals, winemaking techniques — the options are basically endless! Take what you like about your favorite wine and ask for help finding something new in that category. If you like crisp and clean Pinot Grigio, perhaps you’d like an unoaked Chardonnay. A Merlot lover might enjoy a warm-climate Grenache.

Similarities can be pulled from your current wine profile and extended across varietals and styles to find you something new to love.

Where does one start if they’re ready to start building a stash at home, for personal enjoyment (of course), but also to share when guests come over?

For those of us in the TC area, visiting local wineries can be the best way to start a wine stash.

This way, you can try everything before you buy, and you’ll have a great story to go with every bottle. A lot of the wine business is about telling stories, by having a personal experience where the wine is made, you can share that with friends as well. Having some diversity in your wines can help so there is something for a crowd.

What’s the best way to store wine once you accumulate a fair amount but don’t have a cellar?

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much dryness. I keep wine on its side, so the cork stays wet, on a simple homemade wine rack in my basement — [unheated] Michigan basements are the perfect cellars.

What are the current trends or new exciting developments in the industry? Is there something even a seasoned aficionado might find interesting?

Packaging is seeing some innovations that make it easier to transport and enjoy wine in various settings. From cans, bag in box, tetra packs, and wine purses it’s easier to take your wine to outdoor gatherings. Product wise, Rosé and red blends continue to be popular selections nationwide and represent some of the biggest growth categories.

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On the homeward side, our 2016 Reserve Dry Riesling is amazing. From our 30-year-old original vineyard, it’s a lively and bright wine with heaps of melon, pear, and citrus, with a floral finish. Riesling can get the “sweet wine” rap here in Michigan, but it’s actually made in a wide array of sweetness levels as well as sparkling. I’m also a huge GSM (GrenacheSyrah-Mourvedre) fan — and particularly fond of the Australian and Southern Rhone styles.

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Simple Selection Tips

If you’re like most Americans, you go searching for the $9–15 bottle at the grocery store, where price and brand familiarity rule the selection process. Wine experts suggest a few considerations for this price range: First, look for the size of the producer. The smaller the operation, the easier it is for them to focus on quality control. Larger producers sometimes introduce chemicals or blend their products for a more homogenous flavor. Keep in mind if wine gives you a headache, it could be that those added chemicals are the culprit. Second, great values can be found from lesser-known regions around the globe. Wine retailers can be your best friend here as they’ve tried many different bottlings and can offer an educated opinion on what makes a good value wine.

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The Hunt for the Perfect Red There’s no fighting Mother Nature, but Black Star is betting the proverbial farm on a high-tech machine that could make her mercurial ways less challenging to red wine

By Ross Boissoneau Northwestern lower Michigan is wellknown for its wine, but the weather can throw a wrench into the works. Frigid winters, late frosts, or summer storms can damage, even destroy an entire year’s crop.

Witness the harvests — or lack thereof — in 2014 and 2015.

Even in those years where there is a good harvest, weather variations can impact the grapes and prevent the resulting wine from reaching its peak. That’s especially true of reds, which require a longer, warmer growing season than white wine grapes.

Enter the Flash Détente. While the process has been around for nearly 20 years, it’s been more readily adapted overseas than in the U.S. That’s slowly starting to change, as wineries in California and Texas are among those opting to shell out the nearly halfmillion dollars for the system.

Black Star Farms added itself to that exclusive club, recently bringing in a Flash Détente to help boost the quality of its award-winning wines.

“It breaks down the cell structure and releases everything the grape has,” said Lee Lutes, chief winemaker for the Black Star’s winery. “It’s a new tool in the kitchen. Let’s see what we can make.”

HOW IT WORKS The machinery is complex, but the process is relatively straightforward: The grapes are heated to a temperature between 175 and 185 degrees, then immediately pumped into a vacuum chamber. There,

the flash vaporization of water inside the grape skins causes the vacuoles to explode, releasing all of the pigments. The process eliminates any green, vegetal flavors associated with under-ripeness and other undesirable characteristics, and, as a bonus, provides greater color to the juice.

“We’re a mid-continental maritime climate. We get a lot of factors that make it challenging for red wine [production],” Lutes said. Last year, for example, was cool until the 90-degree temperatures in September, which basically saved the reds’ season. “We would have been struggling without September to get reds. We have growing seasons like that.” “[The Flash process] mitigates the weather,” added Sherri Campbell Fenton, the director of communications and public affairs for Black Star Farms. “We have shorter seasons, cooler falls — there are more variables here.”

It’s not just about Black Star Farms.

Lutes is sharing the process with other winemakers from across the state. “It could be a really big deal for Michigan,” said Karel Bush, executive director of the Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council.

The investment was steep. The equipment sells for nearly a half-million dollars. Even with a grant providing nearly half the funding, that’s still a hefty chunk of change. Plus there is an investment in the facility to house the equipment, and in the training of staff. “They’re taking a risk, but it’s been around. They did their homework,” said Bush.

TESTED, APPROVED She said St. Julian Winery from Paw Paw, Michigan, processed some of its grapes through the Flash Détente and is now considering adding the mechanism to its arsenal. Because St. Julian is a large processor, the company could afford to truck its grapes to Black Star and back, said Bush, but that’s impractical for smaller processors. Should St. Julian make the investment, it could provide processing for other wineries in southern Michigan.

Bush said Lutes and Rick Jones from Black Star are showcasing the impact of the Flash Détente at the council’s annual conference the end of this month. They’ll offer a winecomparison tasting — presenting wines processed through the machinery against wines processed normally. Bush said this will be an opportunity for 70 to 80 vintners, processors, and owners to taste for themselves and gauge the impact of the process. “They’ll realize how they might be able to use the service,” she said.

Lutes said he is just starting to scratch the surface of what it can do. He cited the processing of Frontenac as a wine that he said will really benefit from the Flash Détente. “[A Frontenac grape is] kind of an odd fruit. When it’s really ripe, it’s got some bizarre flavors. The best way to process it is before it gets too ripe.

“It’s one more way to overcome the challenges of Mother Nature,” he continued.

The longtime winemaker calls his chosen profession a constant challenge. “I’ve been making wine for 25 years in northern Michigan, and I still haven’t seen everything.”

In other good news for local reds, the Jefferson Cup Awards named two reds from the region as among the very best wines in the country.

Left Foot Charley of Traverse City took home a Jefferson Cup for its 2016 Eden Hill Vineyard Blaufränkisch. It was one of only 16 wines to be awarded a Jefferson Cup among entries from 27 states. Bryan Ulbrich, the owner and self-styled wine sherpa at Left Foot Charley, said he has been working toward improving the quality of his red wines for many years. “We started trying to build quite some time ago. Our reds have been popular,” he said.

The Traverse City winery previously won two Jefferson Cups, but this is the first for a red. Ulbrich said this wine has proven very popular, particularly since winning the Jefferson Cup. “Things lit on fire. We’re nearly sold out – we only have a few cases left.” But not to worry: there are more reds on the way. “We just released a Blaufränkisch from McDonald Vineyard on Old Mission and a Cab Franc merlot called Cadia,” said Ulbrich.

Also honored was Brys Estate’s Merlot 2012. It was among 62 wines awarded a double gold (the 16 Jefferson Cup winners came from that group). “In Michigan, maybe four out of ten (harvests) is really, really good for reds. We just try to make the best reds, and 2012 was one of those exceptional years,” said Coenraad Stassen, the vintner at Brys Estate.

“We’re making progress, if Mother Nature would play along a little.”

He’s hopeful last year’s vintage will also prove to be outstanding. “We’re excited about the 2017.

The reds look amazing,” Stassen said.

Jefferson Cup Invitational founder Doug Frost set up his invitation-only competition as a response to “pay to play” competition, where entries and subsequently winners were dominated by California wines. He’s regarded as one of the country’s top wine experts. “While many competitions insist upon selecting a pre-ordained number of sweepstakes winners, our judges are allowed to find the top wines, whether there are only one, two or three, or even no winners in some categories, as happened this year,” said Frost.

Numerous other wines from the region were also honored at the Jefferson Cup Awards.

Talismøn non-vintage from L. Mawby received a gold. Other entries from Bel Lago Vineyards & Winery of Cedar, Brys Estate Winery, Chateau Chantal and Hawthorne Vineyards of Traverse City, and L. Mawby Vineyards and Shady Lane Cellars of Suttons Bay received a mix of bronze and silver awards. “Michigan is making a lot of noise (nationally),” said Ulbrich. “It’s really fun.”

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By Kristi Kates Sometimes the best ideas happen during something as small as a chat between friends. That was all it took to get the ball rolling on the upcoming Birds of a Feather dinner happening this March at The Little Fleet in Traverse City: several great culinary minds thinking alike.

The dinner was initially the brainchild of Andrea Deibler (co-owner and butcher at Raduno) and Jess Heller (manager at The Little Fleet); it expanded to include a wider branch of the female side of the Traverse City food and drink industry as the idea grew.

“We basically all kind of got together and decided we wanted to do a women-focused dinner, to highlight the work that women do in the restaurant industry here,” Deibler said.

“We felt that now is a good time to showcase inspirational women who are leading and working in our restaurants.”

“Once we started talking about it, it just kind of went from there, and kept expanding because there are so many great women in town,” Heller said. “And a lot of these women work behind the scenes, so just don’t get recognition or acknowledgement of the work they do.”

Barbara Saxton, who is bar manager and also runs the beverage program at The Little Fleet, added that the dinner is something of an “homage” to the talented women in town.

DINING EXPERIENCE The menu is still being concepted for the event, but with this crew, suffice it to say it will be impressive. Each course – there will be five – will be paired with a cocktail, for a full and unique dining experience.

“If there’s one thing we can say about the theme for the night, it will be cohesive for sure, even though the theme itself is undecided as of right now,” Saxton said.

“I’d say the biggest theme will be ‘good food

made by great women!’”

The dinner will be presented family-style, on long tables perfect for friendly conversations and meeting some new friends.

“Six women will be overseeing the six different courses, one course each; and each woman will be paired with a bartender, winemaker, or brewer for the beverages,” explained participant Jen Blakeslee, coowner of The Cook’s House and Milkweek Street Food. “All of the food and beverages will also be sourced from female purveyors.”

There may only be six main chefs featured in this particular Birds of a Feather dinner, but as Blakeslee pointed out, there’s a very deep well of female culinary talent in the region to choose from for the next dinner event.

CULINARY CAMARADERIE “It really is an endless list,” she said. “Chefs, cooks, barwomen, cheesemakers, purveyors, brewers — so we thought we’d start by asking a few people this year, and then we’ll ask a few more next year, and hopefully it will grow.

We’re fortunate to have so many bad-ass women up here. It’s going to be an awesome dinner. We’re all really busy, too, so this is also a good excuse for us to all get together.”

Cammie Buehler, co-owner and managing partner at Epicure Catering, agreed that the camaraderie between the women of the local restaurant industry is strong.

“This event was essentially born out of a desire to hang out in and around the kitchen with some of our friends in the industry who owned food and beverage based businesses or supplied those businesses,” she said.

“Everyone had a couple of friends to enlist, and once we started planning we quickly realized that there was no possible way to include all the unbelievable women in the industry in Traverse City and Leelanau County in one evening. There is so much talent in this area! That’s when the idea of making this an annual event emerged.”

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have so many bad-ass women up here. It’s going to be an awesome dinner.

We’re all really busy, too, so this is also a good excuse for us to all get together.

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JUST GOOD FOOD An off-season annual event, that is; all of these in-demand women are far too busy in the summer months to put extra effort into staging a more complicated endeavor like this. Instead, they’re relishing the opportunity to have something fun and different to do in the off-season, when they can stretch their culinary talents and reconnect with their restaurant industry sisters.

“We definitely want to continue doing this,” Deibler said. “We got a lot of enthusiastic response to the idea, and there are so many women in the industry that aren’t doing this particular dinner with us this time, so we want to keep it going for future years to include more women, so we can all come together and make good food.”

“We’re thinking maybe one of these dinners in the fall, and another in the winter,” Heller added. “Summer’s just too crazy!”

“Truly, the purpose was to connect and spend time with one another in a working context,” Buehler said. “Our businesses are

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The Birds of a Feather Dinner — a Collaboration of Women in Traverse City’s Food and Drink Industry Featuring a Five Course Feast with Paired Cocktails – will take place at 6pm on March 18 at The Little Fleet. Tickets $75 per person, limited seating; for more information, visit thelittlefleet.com/events.

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By Ross Boissoneau Those who were in the audience the last time Tommy Igoe played the City Opera House might think they know what to expect. After all, the masterful drummer and his powerhouse Birdland Big Band roared through a supercharged set of tunes, mostly from his then-recent recording Eleven, with attitude, swing, and plenty of chops.

But this is a different time, a different set of tunes, and a different band. “We have five horns and five rhythm. It’s still a very big sound, but it’s more flexible,” Igoe said of the Birdland All Stars, which will be performing at the City Opera House Feb. 25.

When asked what this band plays, he turned the question around: “What don’t we play?” he said, mentioning everything from classic jazz to the Beatles to Pat Metheny. When it’s mentioned that this band has a configuration closer to Tower of Power than a traditional big band, he immediately responded, “We play Tower of Power, Brazilian, and Latin. We have a killer guitarist, Drew Zing, from Steely Dan.” So yes, Steely Dan is in the set list, along with David Bowie, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, even the Police.

Combining rock and jazz is nothing new for Igoe. He was playing professionally by his teens, and at the age of 20 he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears. Igoe’s San Franciso version of a big band, the Groove Conspiracy, incorporated Zing, bassist Michael League from Snarky Puppy, members of the Doobie Brothers and Tower of Power, and several vocalists to create a sound that crosses over from big band into soul jazz and pop.

Igoe said that doesn’t always work well with a true big band. A group with 13 horns can get unwieldy playing rock- or funkinflected tunes, and with only bass and piano alongside him in the rhythm section, it’s difficult to give those kinds of songs the proper treatment. “It’s hard to have certain instruments to play authentically. For Steely Dan, you’ve got to have guitar. It’s completely different [than without a guitar] and a million times better,” he said.

He also enjoys playing alongside an additional percussionist who fills out the music with shakers, guiro, congas, and other instruments. “My job is made infinitely easier when I don’t have to cover every percussion instrument. I get to enjoy myself a lot more.

For traditional Latin, you really need bongos, cajon, bells. There’s nothing like the real thing.”

Igoe said that doesn’t mean that all such combinations always work. Sometimes a certain mix of musicians just clashes, no matter how much effort they put into it.

“You surround yourself with musicians you naturally blend with, but [maybe] your heart doesn’t beat in the same way. Coltrane and Billy Higgins wanted to play together. They couldn’t wait and finally did — and it didn’t work. They just didn’t work,” Igoe said.

The son of famed jazz drummer Sonny Igoe, who performed with Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, and Tony Bennett, as well as the NBC and CBS Television Orchestras, Tommy sees no need for the commonplace or mediocre. While his Birdland Big Band plays some classic big band tunes, it does so with attitude, gusto and a dedication to being the best big band out there. “There are a lot of very average big bands. I’m shocked at what the Grammys [nominate]. The top five are very conservative.”

Yet Igoe doesn’t come off as opinionated so much as enthusiastic and dedicated to giving his audience the best show possible night after night. “I try to make the tour really spectacular.

I’ve done a lot, and I’m really proud of that, [but] I haven’t done it all,” he said.

The facts tend to work against that last statement. In addition to the three groups noted above, he’s toured with a sextet, gone on jazz cruises, and played drums on three Grammy award-winning recordings. He was voted the World’s No. 1 Jazz Drummer in the 2014 Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll. Igoe is also in demand as a motivational speaker and has authored instructional books and DVDs; he even wrote the drum book for the Broadway version of The Lion King.

The Traverse City show is the last date of band’s tour. Two days later, he’ll be in San Francisco recording a DVD. So he promises the show will showcase a well-oiled machine that will pull out all the stops. This performance also features Smithsonian-recognized visual artist, Jeremy Sutton, who will live-paint an original work during the performance, with a silent auction at the end of the show.

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NORTHERN SEEN 1. WTCM NewsTalk 580 host Ron Jolly (left) chatted with Traverse City’s National Writers Series guest Peter Heller, best-selling author of “The Painter” and “The Dog Stars,” and contributing editor at Outside magazine and Men’s Journal.

2. Posing were Dan Bloomquist, co-owner and head chef at Trout Town Tavern; his wife, Evamarie Buskirk; entertainer Mike Riddley; and Trout Town co-owners, Gary and Wendy Kosch.

3. Jim Flateau having fun in the “Where The Wild Thing Are” room during the Golden Fowler Dream Room Classic event.

4. Rich, Mike, Matt, Kristal and Jim at Golden Fowler’s Dream Room Classic event.

5. Jeremy Smith, Mike Moran, and Troy Daily at the annual Stout Challenge at The Little Fleet in Traverse City. Hop Lot Brewing Company took first place in the competition.

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feb 17

saturday

GLEN LAKE WINTERFEST 2018: Featuring a Perch Fishing Contest + Chili Cook-Off. Bring your biggest catches from Big & Little Glen Lake to the Sportsman Shop at 1pm, & winners will be chosen. Entry fee is $20; $10 of it goes to admission to the Chili Cook-off at noon at Boonedocks in Glen Arbor. glenlakechamber.com

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SELF-DEFENSE SEMINAR: 9am, The Rock, Kingsley. Girls 15 through college age must pre-register by calling 231-263-7000.

Space is limited for this Zonta Club-sponsored class. Free. Find on Facebook.

---------------------THE ADAMS CHAPTER TROUT UNLIMITED FLY TYING WORKSHOP: 9:30amnoon, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. An entry-level activity with basic fly tying.

Presented by the GT Conservation District.

Reservation required: 989-528-0405 or adamschaptertu@gmail.com Free.

---------------------WINTER GUIDED HIKE: 9:30am-noon, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Learn about new & upcoming trail & restoration projects on the parkland. Presented by the GT Conservation District. Snowshoes available to rent. RSVP required: rratliff@gtcd. org or 941.0960, x27. Free.

ROMANCING THE RIESLING: 10am-5pm, Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula. Each winery pairs Rieslings with a food offering from local chefs & area restaurants. $30 advance/$35 day of. wineriesofomp.com

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---------------------WINTERLOCHEN: 10am, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. This outdoor festival features snow painting, a snow treasure hunt, folk, rock & children’s musical duo Trout Fishing in America, workshops, & more. Free. tickets.interlochen.org

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send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

6TH ANNUAL LOC SNOWSHOE STAMPEDE 5K: 10:30am, Leelanau Outdoor Center, Maple City. 5K or 1 mile Snowflake Race (12 & under). locprograms.org

---------------------PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Downtown Petoskey, Feb. 15-18. Today includes the Ice Bar Celebration, snowshoeing, snowman building, Cardboard Sled Challenge, Bumpjumping Competition, Figure Skating Exhibition, live ice carving, & more. petoskeydowntown.com

---------------------VINE TO WINE SNOWSHOE TOUR: 10:30am-4pm. Starts at Big Little Little Wines, TC. Enjoy a snowshoe adventure through the vines & trails between four wineries, where you will stop along the way for a chili & soup lunch. The hike is about 2.5 miles on rolling terrain. Make reservations. $45/person or $60 w/ snowshoe rental. grandtraversebiketours.com

---------------------- ---------------------“LIVE MORE LEELANAU” FAMILY HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIR: 10am1pm, Suttons Bay Gym, Montessori wing.

Presented by Leelanau Montessori Forever Foundation. Focusing on community-driven, health & wellness related businesses & organizations in the area, this event will feature kids’ activities, live demos, giveaways & more.

---------------------10TH ANNUAL 5K SNOWSHOE CHALLENGE: 10am, Camp Petosega, Alanson.

Keith Henning Memorial Race. Registration runs from 8-9am. Race at 10am. 231-3485479. $25.

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8TH ANNUAL BETSIE BAY FROZEN 5K: Begins at 10am at the Elberta scenic lookout. Presented by Stormcloud Brewing Co. For those willing to face 10-degree temperatures & 30-mph gusts off Lake Michigan.

Proceeds benefit water initiatives. Advance registration, $20; day of, $25. facebook. com/BetsieBayFrozen5k

3RD ANNUAL WINESHOEING EVENT: 11am, Maple Moon Sugarbush & Winery, Petoskey. Enjoy a guided tour, wine before & after snowshoeing, chili, & a souvenir glass. Snowshoes are provided by Bearcub Outfitters. Guided snowshoeing departs at 11am, 1pm & 3pm. Free tour of Maple Moon’s facility will be at 4pm. Reservations required: 231.487.9058. $20. mmsyrup.com/ index.html

---------------------FIRE & ICE FESTIVAL: 11am-4pm, Pond Hill Farm, Harbor Springs. Featuring a cross country ski dash, snowshoe dash, fat tire bike dash, cardboard sled challenge, snowman making contest, snowman explosion & more. pondhill.com

---------------------LEGO SATURDAY AT BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY: 12-2:30pm, Mills Community House, Benzonia Public Library. Build your own boat, watercraft, or sea creature.

Hosted by Benzie County Water Festival & BPL. Free. benzonialibrary.org

(The first woman) Chief Engineer for the Mackinac Bridge Authority Kim Nowack presents “Mackinac Bridge, Then and Now” during the Harbor Springs Historical Society’s next Harbor History Talk on Thurs., Feb. 22 at 5:30pm on the second floor of the Harbor Springs History Museum. $5 adults, free for current Historical Society members. Make your reservation: 231-526-9771.

CHILI COOK-OFF: 2-5pm, Downtown Elk Rapids. Tickets: $4 early at Nifty Things or $5 day of. Find on Facebook.

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MICHIGAN HOUSE WINTER SOCIAL: 3-11pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Held inside the heated tent with fire pits. Featuring Michigan Made music, food, beer & spirits. Tickets: $20 advance/$25; includes 2 beers or 1 winter cocktail. wintersocialtraversecity.com

---------------------“DON’T CRY FOR ME MARGARET MITCHELL” DINNER THEATRE: 5:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. $60/person. Call for tickets: 231-386-5001.

to the TC High School Food Pantry.

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FEBRUARY SUNSHINE CONCERT: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring Kevin Johnson, Eliza Thorp, Indigo Moon & Lara Fullford. Tickets: $10 advance; $15 door. Students, $8; 12 & under, $5. redskystage.com

---------------------SWEETHEART SWING BIG BAND DANCE: 7pm, The Otsego Club Convention Center, Gaylord. Free dance lessons at 6pm. Featuring the Up North Big Band.

Presented by Gaylord Area Council for the Arts. $15 advance; $20 door. gacaevents. weebly.com

---------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------CHARLEVOIX WINTER INDOOR SIDEAUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon WALK SALES: Downtown Charlevoix, Feb. 16-19.

Books, TC. Yvonne Stephens will sign her book “The Salt Before It Shakes.” horizonbooks.com

GT DEMS’ WINTER RALLY: 6-9pm, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Includes special guest Debbie Stabenow, speakers Matt Morgan & Dan O’Neil, & live music by Miriam Pico.

Suggested donation of $20 plus a donation

“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: 7:30pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. A romantic comedy in the age of the Internet. $17. oldtownplayhouse.com

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“SO THIS IS LOVE!”: 7:30pm, Old Town Playhouse, Schmuckal Theatre, TC. This collection of short plays is presented by Aged to Perfection. They include “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals,” “The Way to the Castle,” “The Twelve Pound Look” & “Valentine’s Day.” Goodwill donation. oldtownplayhouse.com

---------------------HINDER: 8pm, Little River Casino Resort, Manistee. Enjoy these multi-platinum American rockers. $35-$50. lrcr.com

---------------------JOSHUA DAVIS HOUSE CONCERT: SOLD OUT: 8-10pm, 4320 E 46 Rd., Cadillac. Davis released his most recent CD, “The Way Back Home,” in Sept. 2017. He was a Top 3 finalist on NBC’s “The Voice” (season 8). mynorthtickets.com

feb 18

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CHARLEVOIX WINTER INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: (See Sat., Feb. 17)

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PETOSKEY WINTER CARNIVAL: Downtown Petoskey, Feb. 15-18. Today includes a scavenger hunt throughout downtown stores. petoskeydowntown.com

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14TH ANNUAL HARBOR SPRINGS AREA CHILI COOK-OFF: 12-3pm, Country Club of Boyne, Boyne Highlands Resort, Harbor Springs. $12 adults; 12 & under, free.

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9TH ANNUAL HAVE A HEART VALENTINE’S BENEFIT: 12-9pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. Live music by Pete Kehoe & Michelle Chenard, The Myk Rise Band, Northern Nights, James Greenway Band, Charlie’s Root Fusion & many others. $15/person; includes food. Benefits Brother Dan’s Food Pantry.

--------------------MACKINAW CITY BRIDAL SHOW: 123pm, Audie’s Restaurant, Mackinaw City.

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TAHS HISTORY SERIES PROGRAM: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. This presentation by Jennifer Loup will cover the history of the Clinch Park Zoo & Clinch Park area. Free. traversehistory.wordpress.com

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DRAW NOMI: DRAW LIKE AN EGYPTIAN: 1-5pm, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. Dennos volunteers will work with you to illustrate a story using techniques the Ancient Egyptians used when telling a story.

General admission. Free for members & NMC students. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: (See Sat., Feb. 17, except today’s time is 2pm.)

---------------------“SO THIS IS LOVE!”: (See Sat., Feb. 17, except today’s time is 2pm.)

---------------------PFLAG MANISTEE MEETING: 2pm, Holy Trinity Church, Manistee. A support group for families & friends of the lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender community. 313670-2613.

---------------------“DON’T CRY FOR ME MARGARET MITCHELL” DINNER THEATRE: 3:30pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Call for tickets: 231-386-5001. $60 per person.

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “THE FATHER”: 7pm, OTP Studio Theatre @ the Depot, TC. This play has roles for three women & three men. oldtownplayhouse.com

feb 19

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CHARLEVOIX WINTER INDOOR SIDEWALK SALES: (See Sat., Feb. 17)

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ANTRIM AREA WOMEN DEMS MEETING: Noon, Short’s Brewing Co., Bellaire. Pat Miles, who is running for Democratic nomination for attorney general, will be the guest speaker. Luncheon is $12.50. RSVP: chrisandglennh@gmail.com

---------------------FLIES @ THE FRANKLIN: 6:30-8:30pm, The Franklin, upstairs, TC. Presented

by The Northern Angler. Featuring Kevin Feenstra. Learn some new patterns & tying techniques. 877-627-4080. Free.

---------------------AUDITIONS FOR “THE FATHER”: (See Sun., Feb. 18)

---------------------HERE:SAY PRESENTS: LOVE CRAPTUALLY: 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. Hear true stories of love gone bad.

Suggested $5 donation. Find on Facebook.

feb 20

tuesday

INTERNATIONAL LECTURE: Noon, NCMC, Library Conference Center, Petoskey. Dr. Joseph Scanlon will present this lecture on the political significance of the Olympics in East Asia. Free. ncmich.edu

---------------------THRIVE 45º: 5-7pm, Lake Charlevoix Brewing Co., Charlevoix. A network of young professionals presented by the Petoskey Regional Chamber of Commerce. Free. thrive45.org/about

---------------------“ROLE OF DIET IN PREVENTING & REVERSING HEART DISEASE”: 6:30-8pm, Timber Ridge Conference Center, TC. Heart Healthy tasting theme. Presented by Plantbased Lifestyle TC. pbltc.org

---------------------DEBTORS ANONYMOUS MEETING: 6:30pm, Cowell Family Cancer Center, room 3002, TC. Recovery meeting for those with money issues. Info: 973-476-7384.

Free. debtorsanonymous.org

---------------------TRAVEL SERIES: 6:30-8pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Community Room. Featuring Phil Stagg, photographer & author of “Waterfalls of Michigan” guidebooks. Free. charlevoixlibrary.org

---------------------“EXPLORING YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASPERGER’S PARTNER”: 6:30pm, TC. Presented by the NW Michigan NT Support spouse group. The exact TC location is provided when the neurotypical family member joins the NW Michigan NT Support private Meetup group at: www. meetup.com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support/

---------------------GTHC FEBRUARY PROGRAM: 7pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. The Grand Traverse Hiking Club presents “Animals on the Trail,” a slide show of animals photographed while backpacking out west

by Kent & Jill Nordin, plus more. Free. facebook.com/GTHikers

feb 21

wednesday

PICNIC AT THE OPERA: Noon, City Opera House, TC. This live TV variety show runs every Weds. in Feb. Join hosts Miriam Pico & David Chown, along with Mark Staycer as

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ImagineLennon, Mash-Up Rock ‘N Roll Musical, AuSable Dance Center, Dos Hippies, Here:Say Storytelling, & The Dance Center.

Experience behind-the-scenes action of camera booms, live audience shots, cue cards, set changes & more. Free. cityoperahouse.org/picnic-at-the-opera-february-21

---------------------YOUNIVERSITY CLUB MEMBER MEETING: 5pm, Blue Tractor, TC. All member meeting of University of Michigan Grand Traverse Alumni Club. Get involved in alumni teams working in the community & growing the scholarship fund for local students.

---------------------A VOLUNTEER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE REFUGEE CRISIS: 6:30-8pm, Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Hear a first-hand account of life in a refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece. TC natives Talia & Zoe Gerstle share their insights from volunteering for three months. tadl.org

---------------------READERS’ THEATER AUDITIONS, SAM SPADE PLAYS: 7pm, Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, Burdickville. The Glen Arbor Arts Center Readers’ Theater will hold auditions for “The John Doe Caper” & “The Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail Caper.” Offering roles for 19 adults – a minimum of eight men & 11 women. One of the male roles requires a French accent. One of the female roles requires an Italian accent. 231-3346112. glenarborart.org.

---------------------LIFETREE CAFÉ: 8pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Featuring the film “Does God Have a Plan for You” & a discussion. Free. Find on Facebook.

feb 22

thursday

COFFEE @ TEN: 10am, Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Food stylist & photographer Krystn Madrine. Free. crookedtree.org

---------------------TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL’S ICE BREAKER WINTER SPEAKER SERIES: Noon, Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council office, Petoskey. “In Situ Burning as a Pollution Response Tactic in the Great Lakes.” watershedcouncil.org

---------------------ART TAKEOVER - ARTS FOR ALL NIGHT: 4pm, Monkey Fist Brewing Co., TC. Artist Chase Hunt of Creative Streetworks will share live art & offer classes for anyone who wants to create their own masterpiece.

Grab drinks & dinner; Monkey Fist & Wren the Butcher will donate a portion of proceeds to Arts for All. artsforallnmi.org/events

---------------------BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30-7pm, Paddles & Pedals, Bellaire. RSVP: 231533-6023. $3/person.

---------------------FEBRUARY SWIRL: 5:30-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Galleries, Petoskey.

Featuring wine & appetizers by Vernales & Petoskey Brewing, & live music by Michelle Chenard. $15 advance; $20 door. crookedtree.org

---------------------HARBOR HISTORY TALK: 5:30pm, Harbor Springs History Museum, second floor. “Mackinac Bridge, Then and Now” will be presented by Chief Engineer for the Mackinac Bridge Authority Kim Nowack. $5 adults; free for Historical Society members.

Make your reservation: 231-526-9771.

---------------------UP NORTH GREEN PARTY PRESENTS “THE HUNTING GROUND”: 6:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Join in a discussion in

the middle of the film. Free. upnorthgreenparty.org

---------------------“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: (See Sat., Feb. 17)

---------------------HOW TO FERMENT FOODS DEMONSTRATION COOKING CLASS: 7:30pm, Oryana Café, TC. Explore fermented & cultured foods in the kitchen, covering two methods for home-brewing Kombucha, how simple it is to make Sauerkraut & an overview of other probiotic-rich foods. Free. oryana.coop/events

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STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Enjoy stories & play designed to promote joy & growth in literacy.

Children ages 0-6 & their caregivers welcome. Free. lelandlibrary.org

---------------------LUNCHEON LECTURE: 11:30am, NCMC, Petoskey. “Dismal Flutes and Dirty Clarinets: Woodwinds and Wealth in Dickens.”

Suzanne Shumway, Ph.D., will explain the connection between Charles Dickens & composer Felix Mendelssohn. 231-3486600. $12.

---------------------SOUTH OF THE STRAITS SIERRA CLUB SNOWSHOE OUTING: 5-8pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Snowshoes provided or bring your own. Contact SouthoftheStraits@ michigansierraclub.org with questions. Free.

Bring a dish to pass.

---------------------CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY FUNDRAISER: 6-8pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Enjoy local wine from Bowers Harbor, small bites & live music by Saldaje. $30 donation. cherrylandhumane.org

---------------------GOLDSTEIN-PELED-FITERSTEIN TRIO: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Goldstein, Peled & Fiterstein perform varied programs that include such works as the Beethoven and Brahms Clarinet Trios, sonatas and solo works. $32. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: (See Sat., Feb. 17)

---------------------UP NORTH BIG BAND: 7:30-10:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Enjoy 30’s & 40’s swing & big band dancing. Dance lesson from 6:45-7:30pm. Adults, $10; students with ID, $5. redskystage.com

feb 24

saturday

WRC FINE ART SHOW: 10am-5pm, Thrift Shop, 3030 US 31 S., TC. This show features local artists & curated pieces from years of collecting. Call 946- 4180 to donate art or for more info. Free.

---------------------ANTRIM COUNTY’S WINTER CARNIVAL: 10:30am-12:30pm, YMCA Hayo-Went-HaCamps, Central Lake. Activities for children ages 0-5. 231-587-9021. Free.

---------------------“THE BOARDMAN TODAY”: 11am-1pm, Horizon Books, TC. Featuring author Michael Delp & local experts. Learn about current & proposed events on the Boardman River. horizonbooks.com

---------------------WALKING IN A WINTER WONDERLAND: 11am-3pm, Crooked Vine Vineyard & Winery, Alanson. A benefit for Tip of the Mitt

Watershed Council. Enjoy snowshoeing on 38 acres, wine tasting, soup & chili & live music. $25 adults, $15 children. watershedcouncil.org

TC RESTAURANT WEEK: TC, Feb. 25 March 3. Featuring three course meals for $25 or $35/person. See list of participating restaurants at: downtowntc.com

BIRD NEST-BOX BUILDING WORKSHOP: 12-4pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the Grand Traverse Audubon Club. 231-409-9203. Free. grandtraverseaudubon.org

WRC FINE ART SHOW: 11am-5pm, Thrift Shop, 3030 US 31 S., TC. This show features local artists & curated pieces from years of collecting. Call 946- 4180 to donate art or for more info. Free.

SNOW ANGEL 50K & 25K: Noon, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Part of Short’s Brewing Fat Bike Series. Presented by Bearclaw Bicycle Co. sbfbs.com/bbco

10TH ANNUAL GREAT INDOOR FOLK FESTIVAL 2018: 12-5:30pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. More than 100 musicians from northern MI’s folk, bluegrass & acoustic music scene will perform on seven stages, including those dedicated to “New Folk” & “Kids Music.” Hosted by Northern Michigan Songwriters in the Round. Featuring Carter Creek, Wild Sullys, Cabin Fever, Kirby, Song of The Lakes, E-Minor Band, The Nephews & many others. Free. Find on Facebook.

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---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Eagle Bennett, author of “Changers.” horizonbooks.com

---------------------BEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT SNOWSHOE OUTING: 5-9pm, Camp Daggett, Petoskey. Enjoy snow-covered trails illuminated by more than 100 torches. Afterwards have hot chocolate & cookies while warming up by the fire in the lodge. Free; snowshoes available. campdaggett.org

---------------------FOFA PRESENTS: THE NORTH CAROLINES: 7pm, Suttons Bay High School Auditorium. Presented by the Fine Arts at Suttons Bay Schools. Enjoy American roots styles with southern influence. They are joined by a mutual love of songwriting, ballads, storytelling & instrumental tunes. $16 adult, $12 student. brownpapertickets.com

---------------------FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 7pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Free entry & popcorn. Call 231263-7000 for more info. facebook.com/pg/ therockofkingsleyMI/events

---------------------LIVE MUSIC FUNDRAISER FOR GRAND TRAVERSE PIPES & DRUMS: 7-10:30pm, Elks Lodge, TC. Featuring the Celtic Fire Highland Dancers. $15 advance; $20 door; $10 under 10; & free 3 & under. grandtraversepipesanddrums.org

---------------------“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: (See Sat., Feb. 17)

---------------------MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPER: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. Premier bluegrass fiddler Cleveland performs with his band Flamekeeper. Tickets: $27 advanced; $30 door; $24 museum members. dennosmuseum.org

---------------------THE CRANE WIVES: 8-10pm, Charlevoix Cinema III. These winners of the 2017 JBL Best American Band Contest will perform indie folk & more. 231-622-3238. $25.

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ARCTIC TRIPLE TEAM RELAY & ICEBERG TRIATHLON: 9am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. XC ski, fatbike & snowshoe. Relay for teams of three or triathlon for individuals.

Free. racetc.com

---------------------NORTHERN MICHIGAN BRASS BAND CONCERT: 3-5pm, First Congregational Church, Charlevoix. $10; students & seniors over 70, free. northernmichiganbrassband.org

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THE BIRDLAND ALL-STARS FEATURING TOMMY IGOE: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. “The Art of Jazz” will feature music from Ellington to Steely Dan, Monk to The Beatles.

Smithsonian recognized visual artist, Jeremy Sutton, will be live painting, followed by a silent auction. $42.50, $32.50. cityoperahouse.org/the-birdland-all-stars

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: OPEN SPEAKER MEETING: Saturdays, 8pm, Munson Medical Center (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

---------------------ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: YOUNG PEOPLE’S MEETING: Fridays, 8pm, Grace Episcopal Church (basement), TC. district11-aa.org

---------------------BAY HARBOR MUSIC ON MAIN: Thursdays. Enjoy live music in The Village at Bay Harbor. Weekly themes & genre will vary & may compliment the Sat. event or Great Lakes Center for the Arts performance schedule. bayharbor.com

---------------------C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WEEKLY BREAKFAST GATHERING: Fridays, 10:30am, Smoke on the Water Cafe, Charlevoix. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

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C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WRITE ALONG GROUP: Sundays, 2:30-4pm, Charlevoix Public Library, 2nd floor Trustees Rm. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

---------------------COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS: Thursdays, 5:30pm, 5th & Oak St., TC. Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength & hope are recovering from compulsive eating & food addiction. traversecityceahow.org

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RANGER-LED SNOWSHOE HIKES: Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center. Reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext. 5010. Free, but park entrance pass or annual pass required. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: Saturdays, 12-5pm through Feb. 24. Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore easy to moderate trails & then warm up with drinks & food.

Hearth & Vine Café will provide beef & bean chili, white chicken chili & a grilled sandwich.

Last snowshoe rental ($15) is at 4pm. blackstarfarms.com/snowshoes-vines-wines

---------------------NEW YEAR LIFE SKILLS CLASSES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Feb. 21. Journey Wesleyan Church, TC. Presented by Love In the Name of Christ. Featuring Basic Budgeting, Communication Skills, Smart Food Shopping, Goal Setting, & Parenting Topics. Call to register: 941-5683.

---------------------SUNDAY FAMILY FUN SKI: Sundays, 2-3:30pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Rent cross country skis by donation & sign up for an instructor to guide you through the trails. Enjoy a fire & hot cocoa afterwards. 231-533-8576. grassriver.org

“CAMERA EYE WITNESS”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Runs through March 17. An artist talk & discussion will be held on Sun., Feb. 18 from 2-3:30pm. Regular hours: Weds. Sat.: 11am-6pm; Sun.: 11am-4pm. higherartgallery.com

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through Apr. 7 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show featuring talent from around northern MI gives artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost. A Closing Reception will be held on Sat., April 7. gt-artbomb.wixsite. com/2018

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GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - MOLLY PHINNY: WORKS IN CLOTH 2015-2017: A small survey of fiber constructions by Leelanau County artist Molly Phinny. Runs through April 8. 231-334-6112.

- NEW GALLERY/NEW WORK: This exhibition showcases the work of 25 visual artists from Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau & Manistee counties. Runs through Feb. 22. glenarborart.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 10am-8pm; Sun., 1-5pm.: “VISITORS TO THE SEA: MASTERPIEC- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ES FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART”: These masterpieces feature human WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS AT THE figures, a beach, the shore & the water.

CLUBHOUSE: Wednesdays, 9am, TC. sushi &Center Japanese favorites Runs through March 8.

Enjoy a stroll on the Civic path. Free white - “LINES LIGHT: CRAIG TANDY Higher Grounds coffee to follow.

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- - - - - - - - - -take-out - - - - - delivery - - - - - -dine-in - through April 29 at Zimmerman Sculpture rice Court. Canadian artist Craig Tandy conBOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARcall/text 231.633.RICE structs complex sculptures with monofilaKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April. sushi that rollsof the properties Main lobby area of the510 new City Facilities w 14th street ment nylon that illustrate projected light, with an interest in creating a Building, Boyne City. There will also be live space through which the viewer can move. music by Owen James. On Feb. 17 Greg TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL Vadnais will perform live music. boynecityTHINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: mainstreet.com/farmers-market-welcome - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Runs through May. 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the MetroCTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, politan Museum of Art, this exhibit features PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s posseslevel Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, sions & artifacts from the period surrounding Petoskey. This market has moved back Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the inside. When weather permits, vendors will discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. dennostoo. crookedtree.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - museum.org INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MER---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, CATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, PETOSKEY: TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm through April.

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ETY EXHIBITION: Runs through March 24.

Includes 90 photographs by local & regional photographers. Juried by photographer & founder of the annual Photostock Festival, ARNTSON, SEMAN VOYTENKO: Oliver Bill Schwab.

Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring the paint“HAND IN HAND: CRAFT AND NEW ings of bodies of water by Amy Arntson, the TECHNOLOGIES”: Runs through March photography of Greg Seman, & the abstract 24. This exhibition explores the relationship encaustics of Marissa Voytenko. Runs Feb. between tradition & innovation when applied 23 - March 23 with an opening reception on to diverse concepts, materials, methods & Fri., Feb. 23 from 5-7pm. Hours: Mon.-Fri., processes. crookedtree.org 10am-4:30pm; Sat., 10am-4pm; & Sun., 12Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: 4pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org PALATE TO PALETTE ART SHOW: A mul- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - timedia exhibition on cooking, food & drink.

“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Three Runs through March 3. crookedtree.org Pines Studio, Cross Village. Nobel Laureate 2016. This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

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HORIZON BOOKS OF CADILLAC STORYTIME: Wednesdays, 4pm. Listen to a story & create a take-home craft. facebook.com/ horizonbookscadillac

BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Runs through March 3 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Hours: Tues.-Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm.

5PM - 6PM 5PM - 6PM gacaevents.weebly.com

OLD MISSION SNOWSHOE, WINE & BREW: Sundays, 11am through March 4.

Starts at Jolly Pumpkin, TC & then shuttles to Brys Estate, followed by snowshoeing to Bowers Harbor Vineyards & Jolly Pumpkin. tcbrewbus.com/events

through March 3. charlevoixcircle.com DRINK & DRAW: Tuesdays, 7pm, The Workshop ( 2 3 1 ) 9Brewing 4 7 - 3 7 0 Co., 0 |TC.6traversecity15 E. Front Street workshop.com

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Watershed Council. Enjoy snowshoeing on 38 acres, wine tasting, soup & chili & live music. $25 adults, $15 children. watershedcouncil.org

TC RESTAURANT WEEK: TC, Feb. 25 March 3. Featuring three course meals for $25 or $35/person. See list of participating restaurants at: downtowntc.com

BIRD NEST-BOX BUILDING WORKSHOP: 12-4pm, Boardman River Nature Center, TC. Presented by the Grand Traverse Audubon Club. 231-409-9203. Free. grandtraverseaudubon.org

WRC FINE ART SHOW: 11am-5pm, Thrift Shop, 3030 US 31 S., TC. This show features local artists & curated pieces from years of collecting. Call 946- 4180 to donate art or for more info. Free.

SNOW ANGEL 50K & 25K: Noon, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. Part of Short’s Brewing Fat Bike Series. Presented by Bearclaw Bicycle Co. sbfbs.com/bbco

10TH ANNUAL GREAT INDOOR FOLK FESTIVAL 2018: 12-5:30pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. More than 100 musicians from northern MI’s folk, bluegrass & acoustic music scene will perform on seven stages, including those dedicated to “New Folk” & “Kids Music.” Hosted by Northern Michigan Songwriters in the Round. Featuring Carter Creek, Wild Sullys, Cabin Fever, Kirby, Song of The Lakes, E-Minor Band, The Nephews & many others. Free. Find on Facebook.

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SIPS, SOUPS & SHOES ~ A FIRE RELIEF FUNDRAISER FOR BARC: 1-4pm, The Village at GT Commons, TC. Starts at Left Foot Charley & Earthen Ales. $45 for beer & wine & soup pairing; $30 for beer OR wine & soup@soulsqueeze pairing; $20 for root beer & soup pairing. Kids 10 & under are free. Bring your own snowshoes. Limited snowshoes will be ---------------------available to rent for a $5 suggested donaNORTHERN MICHIGAN BRASS BAND soulsqueezecellars tion. thevillagetc.com/sips-soups-shoes-aCONCERT: 3-5pm, First Congregational fire-relief-fundraiser-for-barc Charlevoix. & T R AV E R S E C I T Y , M I C H I G A N | Church, soulsqu e e z e c e l l a$10; r s . cstudents om - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - seniors over 70, free. northernmichiganbrassband.org AUTHOR SIGNING: 2-4pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Eagle Bennett, author of “Chang---------------------THE BIRDLAND ALL-STARS FEATURING ers.” horizonbooks.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TOMMY IGOE: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. “The Art of Jazz” will feature music from ElBEARCUB OUTFITTERS TORCHLIGHT lington to Steely Dan, Monk to The Beatles.

SNOWSHOE OUTING: 5-9pm, Camp Smithsonian recognized visual artist, JerDaggett, Petoskey. Enjoy snow-covered emy Sutton, will be live painting, followed by trails illuminated by more than 100 a silent auction. $42.50, $32.50. cityoperatorches. Afterwards have hot chocolate house.org/the-birdland-all-stars & cookies while warming up by the fire in the lodge. Free; snowshoes available.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: OPEN FOFA PRESENTS: THE NORTH CAROSPEAKER MEETING: Saturdays, 8pm, LINES: 7pm, Suttons Bay High School Lake Leelanau Munson Medical Center (basement), TC. Auditorium. Presented by the Fine Arts at district11-aa.org Suttons Bay Schools.Winter Enjoy American roots Th-Sun Hours: 12-5pm ---------------------styles with southern influence. They are ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: YOUNG joined by a mutual lovewww.amoritasvineyards.com of songwriting, balPEOPLE’S MEETING: Fridays, 8pm, lads, storytelling & instrumental tunes. $16 Grace Episcopal Church (basement), TC. adult, $12 student. brownpapertickets.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - district11-aa.org ---------------------FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: 7pm, The Rock, BAY HARBOR MUSIC ON MAIN: ThursKingsley. Free entry & popcorn. Call 231days. Enjoy live music in The Village at Bay 263-7000 for more info. facebook.com/pg/ Harbor. Weekly themes & genre will vary therockofkingsleyMI/events - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - & may compliment the Sat. event or Great Lakes Center for the Arts performance LIVE MUSIC FUNDRAISER FOR GRAND schedule. bayharbor.com TRAVERSE PIPES & DRUMS: 7-10:30pm, ---------------------Elks Lodge, TC. Featuring the Celtic Fire C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLHighland Dancers. $15 advance; $20 door; LABORATIVE WEEKLY BREAKFAST $10 under 10; & free 3 & under. grandtraGATHERING: Fridays, 10:30am, Smoke on versepipesanddrums.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - the Water Cafe, Charlevoix. Info: alexis @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook.

“ROMANCE GUARANTEED”: (See Sat., ---------------------Feb. 17) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C3: CHARLEVOIX CREATIVES COLLABORATIVE WRITE ALONG GROUP: MICHAEL CLEVELAND & FLAMEKEEPSundays, 2:30-4pm, Charlevoix Public ER: 8pm, Dennos Museum Center, Milliken Library, 2nd floor Trustees Rm. Info: alexis Auditorium, NMC, TC. Premier bluegrass @ 503.550.8889. Find on Facebook. fiddler Cleveland performs with his band ---------------------Flamekeeper. Tickets: $27 advanced; $30 COMPULSIVE EATERS ANONYMOUS: door; $24 museum members. dennosmuseThursdays, 5:30pm, 5th & Oak St., TC. um.org Eaters Anonymous-HOW is - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Compulsive a fellowship of individuals who, through THE CRANE WIVES: 8-10pm, Charlevoix shared experience, strength & hope are Cinema III. These winners of the 2017 JBL recovering from compulsive eating & food Best American Band Contest will perform addiction. traversecityceahow.org indie folk & more. 231-622-3238. $25.

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ARCTIC TRIPLE TEAM RELAY & ICEBERG TRIATHLON: 9am, Timber Ridge Resort, TC. XC ski, fatbike & snowshoe. Relay for teams of three or triathlon for individuals.

Free. racetc.com

HORIZON BOOKS OF CADILLAC STORYTIME: Wednesdays, 4pm. Listen to a story & create a take-home craft. facebook.com/ horizonbookscadillac

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SNOWSHOES, VINES & WINES: Saturdays, 12-5pm through Feb. 24. Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. Explore easy to moderate trails & then warm up with drinks & food.

Hearth & Vine Café will provide beef & bean chili, white chicken chili & a grilled sandwich.

Last snowshoe rental ($15) is at 4pm. blackstarfarms.com/snowshoes-vines-wines

---------------------NEW YEAR LIFE SKILLS CLASSES: Wednesdays, 6-8pm through Feb. 21. Journey Wesleyan Church, TC. Presented by Love In the Name of Christ. Featuring Basic Budgeting, Communication Skills, Smart Food Shopping, Goal Setting, & Parenting Topics. Call to register: 941-5683.

---------------------SUNDAY FAMILY FUN SKI: Sundays, 2-3:30pm, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Rent cross country skis by donation & sign up for an instructor to guide you through the trails. Enjoy a fire & hot cocoa afterwards. 231-533-8576. grassriver.org

---------------------WINTER WALK WEDNESDAYS AT THE CLUBHOUSE: Wednesdays, 9am, TC. Enjoy a stroll on the Civic Center path. Free Higher Grounds coffee to follow. Presented

by Norté.

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April.

Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. There will also be live music by Owen James. On Feb. 17 Greg Vadnais will perform live music. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmers-market-welcome

---------------------CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

---------------------INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm through April.

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ARNTSON, SEMAN VOYTENKO: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring the paintings of bodies of water by Amy Arntson, the photography of Greg Seman, & the abstract encaustics of Marissa Voytenko. Runs Feb. 23 - March 23 with an opening reception on Fri., Feb. 23 from 5-7pm. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4:30pm; Sat., 10am-4pm; & Sun., 124pm. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------“THE LYRICS OF BOB DYLAN”: Three Pines Studio, Cross Village. Nobel Laureate 2016. This all media exhibition runs through March. threepinesstudio.com

---------------------BLACK & WHITE WITH A LITTLE RED EXHIBIT: Runs through March 3 at Gaylord Area Council for the Arts, Gaylord. Hours: Tues.-Fri.: 11am-3pm; Sat.: 11am-1pm. gacaevents.weebly.com

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RANGER-LED SNOWSHOE HIKES: Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire. Meet at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center. Reservations required: 231-326-4700, ext. 5010. Free, but park entrance pass or annual pass required. nps.gov/slbe/index.htm

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CHASING THE RUNNING STITCH: Charlevoix Circle of Arts. This exhibit runs through March 3. charlevoixcircle.com DRINK & DRAW: Tuesdays, 7pm, The Workshop Brewing Co., TC. traversecityworkshop.com

“CAMERA EYE WITNESS”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Runs through March 17. An artist talk & discussion will be held on Sun., Feb. 18 from 2-3:30pm. Regular hours: Weds. Sat.: 11am-6pm; Sun.: 11am-4pm. higherartgallery.com

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE ART BOMB: Runs through Apr. 7 at Right Brain Brewery, TC. This collaborative art show featuring talent from around northern MI gives artists an opportunity to showcase their talents with minimal cost. A Closing Reception will be held on Sat., April 7. gt-artbomb.wixsite. com/2018

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GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - MOLLY PHINNY: WORKS IN CLOTH 2015-2017: A small survey of fiber constructions by Leelanau County artist Molly Phinny. Runs through April 8. 231-334-6112.

- NEW GALLERY/NEW WORK: This exhibition showcases the work of 25 visual artists from Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau & Manistee counties. Runs through Feb. 22. glenarborart.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm; Thurs., 10am-8pm; Sun., 1-5pm.: “VISITORS TO THE SEA: MASTERPIECES FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART”: These masterpieces feature human figures, a beach, the shore & the water.

Runs through March 8.

- “LINES OF LIGHT: CRAIG TANDY MONOFILAMENT SCULPTURE”: Runs through April 29 at Zimmerman Sculpture Court. Canadian artist Craig Tandy constructs complex sculptures with monofilament nylon that illustrate the properties of projected light, with an interest in creating a space through which the viewer can move.

TUTANKHAMUN: “WONDERFUL THINGS” FROM THE PHARAOH’S TOMB: Runs through May. 6. From the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Egypt & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibit features about 100 replicas of the pharaoh’s possessions & artifacts from the period surrounding Tutankhamun’s reign. It reconstructs the discovery of the tomb by Howard Carter & the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. dennosmuseum.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: CROOKED TREE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXHIBITION: Runs through March 24.

Includes 90 photographs by local & regional photographers. Juried by photographer & founder of the annual Photostock Festival, Bill Schwab.

“HAND IN HAND: CRAFT AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES”: Runs through March 24. This exhibition explores the relationship between tradition & innovation when applied to diverse concepts, materials, methods & processes. crookedtree.org Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC: PALATE TO PALETTE ART SHOW: A multimedia exhibition on cooking, food & drink.

Runs through March 3. crookedtree.org

Deadline for Dates information is Tuesday for the following week.

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Phillip Phillips – Collateral – Interscope

Teaming up with a shortlist of producers including Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift), Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson) and Ryan Hadlock (Ra Ra Riot), Phillips, the 2012 Idol winner-turned-genuine-pop-folk talent, drives into this set in direct fashion, alternating earnest ballads (“Part of My Plan”) with more soul-inflected grooves (“Magnetic”). Phillips occasionally steps out into his funkier side (“Don’t Tell Me”), but it doesn’t always stick, and at times seems faintly strained; he’s better sticking to his root sound.

Glen Hansard – Between Two Shores – Anti/ Epitaph

Mosiac’d together in a relative flash in France’s Black Box Studios from old home demos, experimental ideas, and tracks left over from past recording sessions, Hansard’s latest might seem a bit haphazard on the surface but the threads of his voice and melancholy approach carry through to add cohesion throughout the album. He’s straightforward on tunes like “Setting Forth” and “Movin’ On,” upon which he makes it clear he’s quite done with you; on other tracks, he waxes more poetic (“Wheels on Fire,” “Time Will be the Healer.”)

CAMP GREENSKY SPRINGS INTO FESTIVAL TERRITORY Kalamazoo jam-band-turned regional phenomenon Greensky Bluegrass has announced the launch of it’s inaugural Camp Greensky Music Festival, set to run May 31–June 2 at a location to be determined (the band posted a “save the date” announcement on its website). The fest expects to welcome a full roster of performances and other events, heavy on the Michigan-based and regional bands and solo performers, with, of course, a performance or two from Greensky Bluegrass themselves …

Similarly, the White Birch Music Festival, set to happen May 11–13 at the Morelands Motocross Park in Stanton, will be featuring performances from a full complement of Michigan-based acts, including Act Casual, Chuck Whiting, Feral Ground, Galactic Sherpas, Honorable Spirits, Jake Willis, The Change, FlyLiteGemini, Eric Nassau, Dede Alderman, and Petoskey area funk-rock band The Marsupials. Two dozen bands in all will appear at the community-driven, family friendly event, which will also offer food vendors and additional diversions …

Singer Selena Gomez has been named Puma’s latest celebrity shoe designer, following in the footsteps (no, really) of Rihanna as she collaborated with the

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company to design a special shoe. The “Wolves” diva ended up crafting a sneaker of black, pink, and olive with pink Puma symbols across the top, plus a high-top fit with colored mesh inserts and a mid-foot strap, to make for a complex-looking and high-performance fashion sneaker. Gomez and Puma called the shoe “fashionable, fearless, and functional” …

The 2018 Great Escape Festival in Hove, England, has set their roster for this summer, as the popular summer music destination fest preps to welcome in another influx of U.S. tourists for the event. Heading up the lineup for the latest Great Escape are Brighton singer Grace Carter, Manchester band Pale Waves, Nashville’s pop outfit COIN, soulful diva Ama Lou, and Birmingham rapper Mist; more major names are expected to be added in the coming weeks. The fest will run May 17–19 this year …

LINK OF THE WEEK Smashing Pumpkin and Chicago favorite Billy Corgan recently stopped at the NPR studios to play some tracks from his recent solo set Ogilala, along with one of the Pumpkins’ most dramatic tunes (“Tonight Tonight”); catch the full set at https://tinyurl. com/ybn94bxt …

Greensky Bluegrass THE BUZZ Holland duo Marcel and Janelle Arocha have released their new acoustic indie-soul Won’t Let You Fall EP …

DJ Khalid has announced his 2018 Roxy Tour, set to launch from Portland, Oregon, on May 1, with a stop at the Meadow Brook Amphitheater in Rochester Hills, Michigan on June 1 …

Grand Rapids Latin-rock outfit Cabildo has just released its first album in 12 years, the energetic Sin Fronteras …

Fellow Grand Rapids pop-rockers Signal

Point has kicked off its Greensky Bluegrass 2018 live shows schedule with a big show this past weekend in Belmont, Michigan .…

The Michigan House Winter Social Event showcase benefit will take place at Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig venue on February 22, with performances from Madelyn Grant, Alexander Lynch, and Lady Ace Boogie … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

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For my first foray into the 50 Shades universe, despite the series’ overwhelmingly negative reputation, it was important to me to keep an open mind. I didn’t want to be outright dismissive, since so called “women’s pictures” have often been taken less seriously or derided by both film critics and the public at large. And while you or I might not totally understand the appeal of these films, they remain an important space for women and a rare expression of female sexuality and that in and of itself is something worth recognizing.

So while I can certainly appreciate that these films exist and have clearly resonated with such a large audience (like breaking-boxoffice-records large), after seeing 50 Shades Freed, I still think its fans deserve better.

I mean it’s not unwatchable — more of a ridiculous, but not-ridiculous-enough yawn.

And if one thing really comes through on this particular entry, it’s just that its moment has passed. We’ve moved on as a culture, and there might not be a place for this series in a post #metoo era.

If only it had been campier, had a little more awareness, and embraced its awfulness. But it played a far too serious card. That being said, most of my pleasure did still come from how bad the dialogue was or how big the plot holes were — not the chemistry-free, blasé sex scenes.

Cause yeah, you get way better lifestyle porn than you get sex. The films kicks off with the innocent Ana Steele (Dakota Johnson) marrying her dark and twisty billionaire (yes, billionaire with a B) boyfriend, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). No expense was spared for the wedding (peep that coveted flower wall), and they take off for their honeymoon to Paris, where they tour palaces, attend the opera, bike to the Louvre, and casually hang at the Eiffel Tower. Then they go to the Riviera and hang out on a nude beach, yacht-side.

But this wedded bliss is interrupted when it’s revealed that Ana’s former boss (a book editor) is now some kind of hacking mastermind trying to take down Grey Industries and destroy Christian and Ana’s lives. This is where we get to the film’s joke of a “thriller” subplot.

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Oh, and her boss’ old job … ? Ana takes it.

And when she returns to work, this (at most) 24-year-old learns she’s been promoted yet again. But as her husband assures her, it’s clearly for her skill and hard work and not the fact her husband owns the publishing house, something that’s really hard to argue with once you see her big contribution to the workplace: telling everyone to increase the font size by

two points. Groundbreaking, brilliant stuff.

Yet, as minor as her contributions might actually be, work is very important to Ana, and in that way as well as a few others, she does seem to have more agency this time around (see also: shutting down an architect making moves on her husband, finding her own dominance in the bedroom, and taking the driver’s seat, literally). But the underlying abusive nature of the relationship with her controlling sociopath of a husband is hard to ignore. I mean he comes into her office on her first day back at work demanding she change her work email address to reflect his last name and throws a hissy fit at the prospect of maybe having to share her with a baby (they apparently never discussed whether they wanted children before their vows).

And to make matters worse, as portrayed by Jamie Dornan, Christian isn’t even charming or likeable. Dornan is a terrible actor — he can’t do a line read to save his life. And once you know that he and Johnson don’t get along off screen, it’s impossible not to see their utter distaste for each other come through.

But he does stretch himself with this film, adding singing to his repertoire — a deeply uncomfortable rendition of “Maybe I’m Amazed” at that.

So for a film that’s supposed to be about BDSM, I was surprised by its conservative nature. Sure there’s plenty of topless Johnson, but no male nudity — what gives? Maybe it’s because this film is essentially about upholding traditional gender roles. The romantic fantasy is incredibly simplistic and traditional (girl meets boy, gets ring, gets married, shops for house, gets pregnant, how cute that the man can’t cook) just infused with some light erotica. These underlying basic storytelling devices are where you remember, oh yeah, this was just poorly written Twilight fanfiction.

There are a few positives though: the bumpin’ pop/R&B soundtrack and original score. (Did composer Danny Elfman lose some kind of bet?)

And I really have to hand it to author EL James for the amazing soap opera names she gives characters: Jack Hyde, Gia Matteo, BOYCE FOX! And then there’s leading lady Dakota Johnson.

For as terrible as Dornan is, she is as good.

She manages to maintain a sense of self and dignity amidst the absurdity surrounding her and elevates the material. So by film’s end, you not only rejoice in your own freedom from this hooey, but hers from this franchise.

Onward and upward, Dakota!

Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

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: Follow your dreams — and end up doing five to 10 in the pen for home invasion and assault!

The widely believed myth that dreams are filled with meaningful symbolism is an unfortunate form of what I call Freud reflux — the “I Dream of Penie” version of a questionable burrito that keeps repeating on you. The assumption that Freud knew what he was talking about comes not from any solid evidence for his claims but, as I wrote in a previous column, probably in part because he “accessorized so credibly, with the cigar, the iconic eyewear, and the groovy Viennese fainting couch.”

Psychologist G. William Domhoff, on the other hand, has done decades of rigorous research on dreaming. He finds there’s really no good scientific evidence that dreams have any importance for guiding our lives — no evidence that they have any function or useful meaning for us (save for the guy in the turban and kohl eyeliner outside the food co-op, for whom dreams are the stuff that timely rent payments are made of).

Domhoff explains dreaming as “intensified mind-wandering” that leads to “imaginative but largely realistic simulations of waking life.”

Brain imaging of people in REM sleep (a sleep stage often accompanied by vivid dreams) suggests our capacity to dream is “an accidental byproduct of our waking cognitive abilities” and may be a “subsystem” of the “default mode network” of the brain.

This is simply the network of neurons the brain “defaults” to when you aren’t doing targeted thinking, like trying to solve some complicated equation or remember some word in French.

Your brain doesn’t just shut down between these targeted thinking jags. It does what I think of as “background processing,” gnawing at problems you were previously focused on — but it does it beneath your conscious awareness while you’re, oh, washing a dish or having sex.

So, in a way, dream time seems to be a kind of cognitive autopilot. In brain scans of people

in REM sleep, neurobiologist Yuval Nir sees decreased self-awareness, attention, and memory. There’s also reduced “voluntary control” of action and thought -- which is why, when dreaming, we cannot control “the content of the dream,” like by changing the channel from HesWithSomeHussy!TV. Nir also finds that there’s often — surprise, surprise — greater emotionality when dreaming. (Presumably, you don’t go around punching your ex-boyfriend’s dates in your waking life.)

However, Domhoff says that in many instances, dreams “dramatize ongoing emotional preoccupations.” These are sometimes unhealthy or at least unhelpful. You’d think you could just try to avoid thinking those thoughts during your waking hours. Unfortunately, research by the late social psychologist Daniel Wegner suggests otherwise.

Wegner, famously, instructed research participants, “Try not to think of a white bear.”

This is a failed proposition from the start, because your mind sweeps around to check whether you’re avoiding bear-pondering — thus leading you to think about the bear. In short, Wegner found that trying to suppress thoughts made them come back with a vengeance. The same was true when he later had subjects try to suppress thoughts just before going to sleep. These subjects were much more likely to have those thoughts be all “We’re baaaack!” in their dreams.

But — good news — there is a way to outsmart your brain’s yanking you back into the same old abyss. Psychologists Jens Forster and Nira Liberman found that you can probably keep yourself from endlessly revisiting a thought if you simply admit that not thinking of it is hard.

As I explain in my new book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” their solution “probably sounds too simple to be real, but it makes sense.

Removing the need to patrol your thoughts also removes the mental sticky note that tells you to keep going back into Thoughtland … to see how well you’re doing.”

In general, you should try to avoid ruminating — pointlessly rechewing the past, like your mind’s a sadistic TV station always showing the same disturbing rerun. Moving forward takes thinking about the past in “forward” ways — basically, by making meaning out of it. So when you find yourself reflecting on this relationship, remind yourself to put the right spin on it: looking at it from the standpoint of what you’ve learned — what you’ll apply to make your relationships work better in the future. Before long, you could be on a date again — and I don’t mean one of his, with binoculars from a car across the street.

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FEB 19- FEB 25

BY ROB BREZSNY

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now that you have finally paid

off one of your debts to the past, you can start window-shopping for the future’s best offers. The coming days will be a transition time as you vacate the power spot you’ve outgrown and ramble out to reconnoiter potential new power spots. So bid your crisp farewells to waning traditions, lost causes, ghostly temptations, and the deadweight of people’s expectations. Then start preparing a vigorous first impression to present to promising allies out there in the frontier.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s t-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating -- thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972,

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re playing

poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

three American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): If you gorge on

ten pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever

had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no

such thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it.

You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II,

British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves.

I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the

next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing, and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder.

Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The

little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice.

Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus -- a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

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